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The Story of the Violin, 1914
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1CHAPTER XV.
3MAGGINI AND OTHER BRESCIAN MAKERS.
5Gasparo's mantle fell on his pupil, Giovanni Paolo Maggini, who was born in Brescia, 1581, and worked there till about 1632. Maggini's instruments resemble those of his master in their large proportions, but show a great advance in point of view of appearance as well as tone. He also—unlike Da Salo, who made more viols, etc.—confined himself chiefly to the making of violins, which seems to indicate that by the end of the sixteenth century the demand for violins, as compared to viols, had—at least in Italy—become quite general.1 Experts accord to him a very distinguished place indeed in the history of lutherie; all the more, it is to be regretted that his violins have become so scarce. Their tone is large and noble, slightly veiled; the varnish light brown of remarkable delicacy and transparency; the ribs or sides are narrow; the arching starts almost directly from the edges; the back is often richly orna-
71 Another proof that the movement in favour of the new form must have begun prior to Gasparo da Salo, as the few violins made by the latter could hardly have created a larger market so soon.
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