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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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1Bergonzi, Nicolaus, Cremona, 1739—1765. Son of Michael Angelo Bergonzi, made better finished instruments than his father, and much after same model, but worse varnish, and as far as I have been able to judge, I do not like them so well.
3Bergonzi, Zosimo, Cremona, 1765. Another son of Michael Angelo, made somewhat highly arched instruments for a Bergonzi, but having a pretty enough tone.
5Bassot, Joseph, Paris, from about 1788. This is reckoned a good French maker. Anything I have seen of his did not strike me as being of very high class, but it was of sound construction and the tone of good quality. Model somewhat high and boxy. Varnish ordinary.
7Bernardel, Sebastien Phillipe, Paris. Born at Mirecourt in 1802. He learned violin making there and went to Paris, where he got employment from the famous Nicolas Lupot at first, and afterwards from Charles François Gand, another famous Parisian maker. He is called in the trade Bernardel père, and many of his violins are of a class reckoned only inferior to Lupot. Bernardel indeed made instruments very like those of his first employer, as was to be expected. They are highly esteemed in France, but not much appreciated here. He retired from business in 1866, and died on 6th August, 1870. Previous to his retirement, his two sons were taken into the business, and the firm became Bernardel and Sons. After his retirement in 1866, the late Eugene Gand became a partner of the two brothers, and the firm was changed to Gand and Bernardel Bros.
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