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The Violin Gallery: Comprising: Section I. South Kensington Special …, 1890
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1230 GEO. GEMUNDER. Geo. Gemunder, Esq.
2The "Kaiser," said to be the most successful imitation of Joseph Guarnerius ever made, and to have deceived the best judges. The varnishing of this back shows much skill in imitating old and worn violins.
4231 MARQUIS DE LAIR. Miss Browne, Des Moines.
5Red varnish; good tone.
7232 BENJAMIN BANKS. SALISBURY, 1785. Robt. S. Osgood, Des Moines.
8Powerful tone, cherry red varnish of fine quality.
10233 VINCENZO PANORMO. Mr. W. H. Ryan, Des Moines.
11Born at Palermo about 1740, and died 1812. Panormo was a great wanderer—he worked at Palermo, Paris and London. It is said that he obtained in Ireland an old maple billiard table from which he made several instruments; his workmanship is graceful and good.
13234 N. A. CHAPPUY. A. M. Wright, Esq., 248 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. 1762–1794. Red Varnish. No ordinary maker; he probably chose Stradivari as his pattern—the f hole being an excellent copy though set nearer the edge. The tone is clear and incisive, and we have it that the French violinist, Habeneck, used one which is at present in the Paris Conservatoire.
15235 CARLO BERGONZI. CREMONA. D. M. Hillis, Esq., Chicago, Ill.
16The best pupil of Stradivari. I give three views of an elegant specimen owned by Mr. Hillis. It is here seen what is meant by the model commencing nearer the purfling in the top than the back, thus making the back a little flatter. This violin is of the most perfect form.
17That back with its very decided markings and multitude of peaks in the center, has evidently been in non-appreciative hands, but the violin has enough of its plum jelly varnish left to guarantee its membership in the fiddle aristocracy.
18Carlo Bergonzi is the only maker of this family whose works rise above mediocrity, and they are very high class rivaling the Nicholas Amati "grand" for third place, and in all probability will win the race. His violins to day command prices ranging from $1,200 to $1,800.
20235 1/2 CARLO BERGONZI. CREMONA, 1748.
21Mr. Bruno Wollenhaupt, 125 East 114 St., New York City. 1718–1755. Small pattern, perfect perservation, varnish reddish dark brown, hollowed out just inside the purfling—particularly the back more than the top. Brought to this country by Louis Bausch, Jr., of Leipzig (son of the bow maker) and bought and presented to the present owner by his brother Hermann Wollenhaupt the celebrated pianist and composer—Mr. Bausch found this violin in a Polish noble family living in Berlin—their grandfather having bought it from the maker Carlo Bergonzi himself.
22Ed Heron Allen, whose book, "Violin making, as it was and is" (London 1885) has become indispensible to connoisseurs as well as violin makers, says of this master, "Carlo Bergonzi the best pupil of Anthony Stradivari. At first copied his great master closely and well, and subsequently started a model of his own of fine size and good thickness of wood, flat and even, the wood handsome and the work excellent. The lower bouts set rather at an angle, the upper bouts larger than those of Stradivari, the scroll
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