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the history of the violin, 1864

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1four other makers of the name mentioned, Ferdinando and Giuseppe, the sons of Nicolaus, who made as late as from 1780 to 1790, or later, there being a ticket of Giuseppe dated 1789, and Giovanni and Antonio, of whom Giovanni is reputed the best. Giovanni, it is said, had two sons, Rafael and Antonio, but it is by no means improbable that this and the former Antonio are the same person; these sons after a few years abandoned the manufacture of instruments, and established a factory for strings, which became one of the best in Italy, and they are stated in "Luthomonographie" to be still living. The essential importance of good strings is recognized by every performer. Angelo Angelucci, of Naples, who died in 1665, had more than one hundred workmen in his employ, and discovered that the best strings were made from mountain bred sheep of seven or eight months old.
3The Bergonzis were good makers at Cremona; a Francisco Bergonzi is named as early as 1687, who might have been the father of Carlo. Carlo Bergonzi, or Baganzi worked from about 1712 to 1750, and made some excellent instruments, which are held in considerable estimation; they generally possess beauty and brilliancy with a fine tone. He worked at one time with Stradiuarius, but according to some of his tickets calls himself a pupil of Nicolas Amati, as for instance, "Carlo Baganzi allieue di Nicola Amati fecit Cremonae anno 1723." He had a son called Nicolas living at Cremona in 1739, whose instruments are sometimes sold for his father's, but are inferior. A Michelo Angelo Bergonzi is mentioned of about the same date as Carlo. Lorenzo Guadagnini, was born at Placentia towards the end of the seventeenth century, and was living in 1742. He was a pupil of Antonius Stradiuarius, whose models he followed,

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