Scan 47
The Fiddle Fancier's Guide: A Manual of Information Regarding Violins …, 1892
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1Sometimes these inscriptions are not very legible, and I daresay an enterprising man coming across one of the half erased tickets, and not, perhaps, acquainted with Italian, might readily think Revisto was a maker's name and that da meant, in this case, "from" and not "by." I could conceive him, then, in the interests of his art, getting a few tickets printed to put into violins which he was absolutely certain were made by the same hand. Having accomplished this, these tickets might, in their turn, become partially illegible, and some other dealer might very readily misread v for n, and feel that he also had a duty to perform to society, and hence we have Renisto. At any rate this is my present view with regard to these names, but, of course, I am quite open to change it on proper evidence being adduced that persons bearing them, and who were fiddle makers, really existed. There are many queer names in the world. I have the same opinion with regard to "Raccomodes," which appears to be a corruption of the French participle raccommodé, and which signifies "repaired."
3Acevo and Sapino have long been suspected as fabricated names, and I have not included them either. They were at one time supposed to have been pupils of Cappa. The first name appears to be a corruption of acero which, in Italian, means maple, and sapino means pine, the two woods of which a violin is generally made. Of course we have, in this country, both these names, the owners of which both work in wood, the one in fiddles, the other in furniture, but there is an air of mystery in addition attached to Acevo and Sapino-
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