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The Fiddle Fancier's Guide: A Manual of Information Regarding Violins …, 1892
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1possessor of the recipe for preparing the original Cremona varnish." This statement appears on his tickets, and may be quite true, but he certainly never seems to have used the recipe.
3Duiffoprugcar, Gaspar, Bologna, Paris, Lyons, 1510—1540. This is an early lute and viol maker, who, having once got into books about violins, seems destined never to get out of them. Every now and again some person starts the discussion as to whether or not he made violins. The latest fight was in May, 1891, in a Leipsic paper, where a writer took the trouble to review the whole question, because a Mr. F. Niderheitmann, of Aix-la-Chapelle, believes that he has discovered three violins by this splendid old viol maker, although everyone to whom he has shown them, and who professes to know anything about the subject, has told him that they are modern French reproductions—that is, modern in the sense that they are probably some of J. B. Vuillaume's clever—fac-similes—as I suppose they should be called. The whole question has been threshed out over again, and the fever of battle has spread to New York, where an esteemed correspondent of my own has taken the trouble to translate the article and reproduce it in the form of a small brochure of seven or eight pages, "Was Gaspar Duiffoprugcar really the First Violin Maker?" I never saw any violins by the great Bolognese.
5Eberle, J. U., Prague. About 1750—1759. A clever maker of the old style; fine finish, but thin, poor quality of tone. High model and good quality of varnish, but somewhat dark in colour. All the Eberles
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