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The Fiddle Fancier's Guide: A Manual of Information Regarding Violins …, 1892
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1CHAPTER V.
3Classical and Post-classical Violin Makers.
5THE reader will find the following alphabetical arrangement easy of reference. He will be able to turn at once to the name of the maker, and find there explained such points of his work as I have found it possible to differentiate. There is a very large number about whom little or nothing can be said, and these have been excluded from this list, and given in one later on, but the latest particulars are given in all cases where any particulars were available. I have excluded certain names which are found in tickets in old violins sold at the present day, because in the meantime, I am inclined to the belief that they are absurd concoctions of violin dealers and others. Such names are Racomodes, Revisto, Renisto, etc. I have seen Renisto gravely described as a pupil of Carlo Bergonzi. To me all these names appear to be concoctions suggested in the following fashion. Italian makers, when they repaired a violin, have occasionally put in a ticket intimating that circumstance as follows, generally in handwriting, but now and again printed, "Revisto da me," followed by the repairer's name. This means in our idiom, "overhauled by me," literally, "revised by me." I have seen a ticket of Carlo Bergonzi's—which is, I think, reproduced somewhere—containing this expression, "Revisto da me Carlo Bergonzi."
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