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The heart of music : the story of the violin, 1906
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1in no way inferior to Amati's. This is probably an exaggeration due to enthusiasm, for the Albani violins, while beautifully made and of extraordinarily powerful tone, lack the sweetness of the Maestro's instruments.
3Albani, like Marcus Stainer and many other makers, gave particular attention to his varnish. His violins, which were made with very high, curving bellies, to throw the sound out in a heavy volume, were covered with deep red varnish that in some lights looked brown and in others purple. His son, who was a violin maker also, settled in Palermo and achieved very little fame, preferring to model his instruments upon the patterns of the old German makers.
5Paolo Grancino, of Milan, was another of Nicolo Amati's pupils. He was one of those peculiar temperaments which, with earnest ambition and unrivalled advantages, just fail in their endeavours. He lived long in Cremona, and worked and studied faithfully, but "he never," says his chronicler, "achieved other than second rank."
7Among the most brilliant names associated with Cremona is that of Ruggieri. Francesco Ruggieri, known as "Feranceso il Per (Francesco, the Father)," came from Brescia originally, where
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