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Scan 259

the history of the violin, 1864

4 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. Printed page 237. See the scan on archive.org.

1generally of the small pattern. He finished with care, using good oil varnish, his S S holes are elegant, and his purfling neat; the first and second strings brilliant, but the third occasionally dull. After working for some time at Placentia he removed to Milan. Giovanni Battista Guadagnini is generally called his son, but if a ticket we have seen with this name and the date 1731, is genuine, it would appear probable that he was his brother, as stated in "Luthomonographie;" he worked at the same places, and made instruments very similar to those of Lorenzo, and of about the same value; he calls himself in some of his tickets a pupil of Antonius Stradiuarius. A Giuseppe Guadagnini is mentioned at Turin in 1751, and another of the same name at Parma in 1793; and some of the family were at Naples a very few years since.
3Francesco Milani, of Milan, worked on the model of Guadagnini about the middle of the century; and Guiseppe Carlo, of the same place, 1769; and Thomas Palestieri, a pupil of Stradiuarius; and Spiritus Sursano, at Coni, about the same time, if there be not some mistake in the name; Alessandro Zanti, at Mantua, about 1770; Camilus de Camile, of the same place, a good pupil of Stradiuarius; and Tommasso Circapa, and Giovanni Santi at Naples, about 1730. At Cremona, Gregorio Montade, a pupil of Stradiuarius, whose instruments were in repute in the early part of the century; Pietro Palestieri, Alberto Giordane, 1735; Davido Camillio, 1755; Nicolao Guletto, 1790; Johann Christian Ficker, 1722; Johann Gottlob Ficker, 1788, and Johann Gottlob Pfretzschner, of whom there is a ticket dated at Cremona 1794; but the three last names are evidently of German origin; and there was a musical firm of the last name at Neukirch, of which we have seen several

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