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The heart of music : the story of the violin, 1906
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1have had a hand in the education of Andrea Amati, the first of the famous violin makers of Cremona. This honour has also been ascribed to Maggini, the pupil of the great Gasparo da Salò. All three of these celebrated men, Zanetto, Salò, and Maggini, lived in Brescia, at that time pre-eminent among all the towns of Italy for violin-making.
3Fortunate Brescia was at that time a cheerful, busy town on a plain at the foot of the mountains. It was watered by the river Garga,—the water supply having been carried through the town by Didier, King of the Lombards. It had had a warlike history even then, and was proud of its arsenal and heavy city walls. It was proud too of its "Palloda," the great clock tower in the centre of it, and of its historic record in metal working, particularly in the making of armour. It must have been very progressive for Italy, for a traveller, only a little later than the time of which we are writing, notes with surprise that the women moved about the streets unquestioned. The streets were narrow, the houses close together, the people hurried and energetic. Here was the Italian cradle of violin-making.
5Gasparo Bertolotti was one of the very rare makers,—one whose genius created an epoch
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