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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, GUISSEPPE. Son of the preceeding. Was a violin maker in Milan, Como, and Parma, and employed his father's tickets. His instruments have a fairly good tone.
3GUADAGNINI. There were a number of this name, subsequent to above, and settled in Turin. Almost all the Guadagnini violins have good tone.
5GUARNERIUS, ANDREAS, Cremona. The first maker of this celebrated name is supposed to have been born there about 1626. He was married on 31st December, 1652, to Anna Maria Orcelli, and had seven children born to him. He died at Cremona on 7th December, 1698. When he was fifteen years old he was working in the shop of Nicolas Amati, and four years afterwards he was one of the witnesses mentioned in the register as being present at the marriage of his master. His instruments are of beautiful workmanship, and of the early Amati model in many cases, and also of the later style of his master. His varnish is of a golden yellow, bright orange, with a brownish tint, and is occasionally of a fine brown. It is sometimes thickly laid on, but is always of the finest quality.
7GUARNERIUS, PIETRO GIOVANNI, Cremona. Eldest son of above. Born 18th February, 1655, and remained at home until about 1680, when he went to Mantua. Three years before this he had married Caterina Sussagni. About 1698, he returned to Cremona, and appears to have remained there until after the death of his father in that year. He went back to Mantua after this event, and lived there a long time, going late in life to Venice, where he died at an advanced age. His violins are very
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