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The Hawley Collection of violins, 1904
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 97. See the scan on archive.org.
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1ANALYSIS OF WORK OF THE FOLLOWERS OF GREAT MASTERS
3gini. He made his corners, however, rather long after the manner of da Salò. He used good wood and varnish. The tone of his instruments is very mellow.
5Palermo
7Vincenzo Panormo was born in Palermo in the middle part of the eighteenth century. He was a clever copyist of Stradivari. With whom he learned his art there is no record, as he was of a restless temperament, moving about from one city to another, finally reaching Paris. It may be that he stopped at the violin-making centers of Cremona, Milan, and Turin and there acquired much of his skill in and knowledge of his art. From Paris he removed to London about 1800 and while there worked for various dealers. His style is not unlike Lupot's, but does not possess the high character and dignity of that maker.
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11Thus ends our chapter on some of the best known followers of the master violin-makers, their work, their times, their cities, covering as it does, the most prolific period in the history of violin-making. From this record it appears that several makers not rated first class should be promoted to higher rank in the history of their art. There can be no doubt that many specimens of the work of some of these men bear names of greater renown, thus working the authors a great injustice. Were it possible we would gladly see their fame properly restored to these able craftsmen for their lifelong devotion to an art requiring so much, and in which many of them achieved results that testified their high mastership.
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