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Scan 92
Old violins and violin lore, 1900
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1VIOLINS AT CREMONA
3interesting problem I shall have to consider in my chapter on Cremona varnish.
5Storioni's instruments are not much esteemed in England as yet, but are thought a good deal more of in Italy.
7I may here fitly mention the Gagliano family, who are associated with the Neapolitan school, but really derive their importance from Cremona. Alessandro Gagliano, the first of the name, was distinguished for his very fine red varnish, 1695–1730. A violin remarkable for its tone is the Gennaro Gagliano that has been used by Mr. Otto Peiniger for solo purposes during many years.
9Alessandro Gagliano was actually in early life a bonâ fide pupil of Stradivari. Finding himself, no doubt, unmercifully overshadowed by the prestige of the immortal workshops in the Square of S. Domenico at Cremona, and being a person of native enterprise, Alessandro Gagliano migrated to the South, carrying with him the Cremona craft, and founded the so-called Neapolitan school. His model was, of course, the approved flat one of the golden age, 1700–37, but his scroll is small and rather mean, the ff are set low down, and the work is sometimes lacking in finish. It is in the varnish of Alessandro Gagliano that we see some connection with Stradivari, his varnish very often being fine in colour and of the right texture.
11Attempts have been made to classify the various towns in which Italian violins were made during the Cremona period into schools, which is about as profit-
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