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Scan 285
Old violins and violin lore, 1900
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1OLD VIOLINS
3PASTA, Domenico and Gaetano. Brescia about 1700-30; followed the Amati instead of the Maggini pattern; poor tone; varnish brown.
4PATZELT, Johann Ferdinand. Vienna.
5PAZZINI, Gian Gaetano. Florence, 1630-70. According to label a pupil of Maggini; instruments are not common.
6PEARCE, George; b. Nov. 16, 1820, Warminster; d. 1856, London. In the workshop of S. A. Forster as errand-boy, taught violin-making, and became an excellent workman.
7PEARCE, James and Thomas. Brothers working in London, 1780-1800; work poor.
8PEARCE, William. London.
9PECCATE, Charles. Maker of bows in Paris, 1889.
10PECCATE, Dominique. 1810, Mirecourt; d. there, Jan. 13, 1874. In 1826 was apprenticed to J. B. Vuillaume at Paris, and worked with him until 1837; then François Lupot died, and Dominique succeeded to his business at 18 Rue d'Angivilliers; returned to Mirecourt; ranks next to François Tourte as a bow-maker; at first sold for 16s., now price quadrupled.
11PECCATE, jeune. A brother of Dominique; also made bows; worked for J. B. Vuillaume; work is inferior to that of his brother, 1856.
12PEDRAZZI, Fra Pietro. A Dominican friar; working in Bologna in 1784.
13PEMBERTON, Edward. London in 1660; instruments ugly, but tone good and the varnish fine. It has been suggested that a Pemberton was the maker of the instrument presented to the Earl of Leicester by Queen Elizabeth, which has "J. 15 P." engraved on the tail-pin—supposed to be the initials of the maker, and the date of the year (1578) in which it was made. If so, he was the earliest English maker of the four-stringed violin.
14PERAULT. A maker in Paris, 1775-77.
15PERON (or Perou), Nicolas. Paris, 1775-90; appointed maker to the Duchess of Orléans; instruments well made; yellow-brown varnish; Gagliano pattern.
16PERRY, Thomas. A maker in Dublin, 1767-1827. He was in partnership with William Wilkinson; they made good violins.
17PERSOIT. Maker of excellent bows in Paris. He made for J. B. Vuillaume, 1823-41; but then started a business of his own. He marked his bows "P. R. S."
18PETERS, Michael. Weyberg in 1801, judging from two labels in a bass-viol of seven strings; the first runs: "Dieses Instrument ist gemacht, anno 1627," the second is "Arranschirt von Michael Peters in Weyberg, anno 1801."
19PETZ. Fussen, Bavaria, 1770.
20PEZZARDI. Brescia, 1580-1610; violins similar to those of Maggini; sometimes sold as Maggini.
21PFAB. Hamburg.
22PFRETSCHNER, Carl Friedrich, son of Johann Gottlob Pfretzschner. Worked in Cremona; no great merit.
23PFRETSCHNER, Johann Gottlob. Cremona, 1794; not good.
24PFRETSCHNER. Neukirchen.
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