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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 of these instruments, 1892
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1GUADAGNINI, GIAMBATTISTA. Son of above. Is said to have been born in Cremona during his father's stay there, and to have also been a pupil of Stradivari. His instruments are valued as highly as his father's, although they are not so powerful. He went to Piacenza after his parent, and worked there a long time, then went to Turin, where he died in 1780. His instruments are covered with a slightly yellowish red varnish, and his tickets run "Joannes Baptista Guadagnini Cremonensis fecit Taurini (or Placentiae) Alumnus Antonij Stradivari."
3GUADAGNINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, Milan, from about 1695 to 1750. This maker was a brother of Lorenzo Guadagnini, and he is sometimes confounded with his nephew, the preceeding maker. Although he was not always so good a maker as his brother or nephew, he certainly made some magnificent instruments, sometimes of Stradivari type, and sometimes of Amati. Middle bouts pretty deep, fine, equally-balanced outline. Excellent wood, and finely-designed sound holes. Varnish frequently of a very deep orange red. Tickets "Joannes Baptista Guadagnini Placentinus fecit mediolani." His arching is of a rather flat character and his sound holes a little longer than usual.
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