Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Scan 373

The Story of the Violin, 1914

41 lines. Read by computer on 18 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

A town on its own line is one of the directory's headings. That is where the town on a maker's page comes from.

1Appendix C
3*Alexander Gagliano (Naples, 1695-1730)
4 {Nicolo Gagliano (1700-41).
5 Giuseppe Gagliano (1740-50).
6 Ferdinando Gagliano (1740-1800).
7 Gennaro Gagliano (1700-50).
8*Francesco Gobetti (Venice, 1690-1720).
9*Domenico Montagnana (Venice, 1700-50)
10*Gregorio Montade (Cremona, 1670-1730)
11Tomaso Balestrieri (Mantua, 1720-50)
12 } thought by some to be imitators only.
14Imitators.
16Pietro della Costa, or Caesta (Trevisa, 1660-80).
17Michael Angelo Garani (Bologna, 1685-1715).
18Carlo Guiseppe Testore (Cremona, 1690-1710), imitated also Joseph Guarnerius.
19*Giovanni Baptista de Gabicellis (Florence, 1745-60).
20Gaspard Assaloni (1690-1710).
21Hans Mans (Naples, 1710-50).
22Lucas Maher (1714-1730).
23Spirito Sursano (1714-20).
24Francesco di Milano (1742).
25*Camillus de Camile (Mantua, 1720-50).
26*Vincenzo Panormo (1740).
27*Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi (Milan, 1750-60).
28Catena (Turin, 1746).
29*Gio. Battista Gabrielli (Florence, 1745-60).
30Antonio Bagetella (1782).
31Laurentius Storioni (1780-1804), the last Cremonese maker.
33* Those marked with stars are the more eminent ones.
35Various other Italian Makers.
37Testator il Vecchio (1560), Milan.
38Joh. Baptista and Peter Jacob Rugger (17th century)
39Vettrini (1630), Mezzabotte (1720)
40 } Brescia.

The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.