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The Story of the Violin, 1914
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1Two Gasparos
3lous workmanship—some bass viols of his, exquisitely wrought, being still extant—a man famous in his time, when Gasparo da Salo was only just born. Little more was known of him until a certain Frenchman, Jean Baptiste Bonaventure Rochefort (1777-1833) startled one day the violin world by new information regarding him. According to Rochefort, Duiffoprugcar was born in the Italian Tyrol about 1469, established himself at Bologna as luthier with a brother, Uldrich, and was taken by François I. in 1515, in company of no less a genius than Leonardo da Vinci, to Paris as instrument-maker to the royal chapel. Ill-health obliged him, however, to move to Lyons, where he died. A beautiful engraving by Pierre Wœriiot, now at the National Library in Paris, shows the artist in his best years (about forty-eight) surrounded by musical instruments (see Fig. 17). But this was not all. He was also said to be the creator of the modern violin form. And lo and behold! as if by magic, like witnesses unto the truth came forth one by one, from their long hiding-places, six in all, the violins of Duiffoprugcar. They were violins and no mistake; not viols of the fifteenth and sixteenth century kind, but violins pure and simple (be it somewhat heavy and clumsy in their proportions), with most of the well-known characteristics—the square shoulders (in opposition to the slanting ones of the old viols), the well-defined curves and corners in the sides, the scroll and ff holes,
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