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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1921
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1XII.—The Gray Friar and Others
3In the transition stage from viols to violins many names show up in vivid relief against the confusion of change, development, and complicated growth. Notably we find that of Joan Kerlino, corrupted to Jean Gerlino, the lutanist from Nüremberg, who migrated to Brescia in 1449 and made violins of a primitive but still promising type. La Borde insists that Kerlino was a Breton, but there is small evidence to substantiate the theory and much to prove him to have been of German birth.
5Next in the list of pioneers we find a name much more illustrious, though, unfortunately, scarcely better known,—that of Pietro Dardelli, the Gray Friar of Mantua. This brilliant man, perhaps because of the seclusion and privacy given by his habit, is almost an unheard-of character in musical history, in spite of his signally valuable work in the development of the early violin forms.
7The convent of Mantua was one patronised largely by ladies of noble birth. Ugly daughters of great houses; rebellious maidens who refused
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