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The fiddle fancier's guide; a manual of information regarding violins, violas, basses and bows of classical and modern times, together with biographical notices and portraits of the most famous performers on these instruments, 1892
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1having beautiful golden-brown varnish over wood of which it is not very easy to see the quality, or to say anything that could not be said of its very clever copy by John Betts. The purfling certainly is of exquisite quality, but there does not appear to have been the same care in the selection of wood as makers displayed later on. The second was another of the same suite, but a violin, the outline of which did not strike me as being particularly good. Instruments by this maker are scarcely known, and are chiefly of antiquarian interest.
3AMATI, A. and H., Cremona. Antonius and Hieronymus Amati were the sons of Andreas, and are supposed to have been born in 1555 and 1556 respectively. Hieronymus died on the 2nd November, 1630, and there is no trace of his brother Antonius either having lived or died. There is an Antonius mentioned in the documents of another parish in Cremona as having died in 1595, but those who have carried out the researches believe that he was only distantly related to the fiddle family. The instruments of this firm are of the highest merit in their class. They are finished in the most perfect manner, and covered with varnish passing from a warm maple brown to a beautiful golden brown with a tinge of red. The wood selected is of the finest character, and the sizes of the instruments are generally small. The arching is somewhat high, but finely and gracefully carried out, and has, of course, nothing of the grotesque and tubby character displayed in imitations. All the work is of a refined and delicate nature, and harmonises well with the choice of wood, which may be described as fine, and delicate too. I have seen some
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