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The Violin: Its Famous Makers and their Imitators, 1875
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1GAETANO, Antoniazzi, Cremona, 1860. The work is very passable, but the form is entirely at fault. The sound-holes are not in their proper position.
3GAGLIANO, Alessandro, Naples, 1695 to 1730. Pupil of Antonius Stradiuarius. The family of the Gagliani played no unimportant part in the art of Italian Violin making. It commences with Alessandro, who imitated his master as regards the form which he gave to his instruments. Alessandro Gagliano upon leaving the workshop of Stradiuarius removed to Naples, a city which afforded him greater scope for the exercise of his talents than Cremona. With others, he felt that his chance of success was very small if he remained on ground occupied by the greatest luminaries of his art. His labours at Naples seem to have been so well rewarded that he caused his sons to follow his calling. There is evidence of their having enjoyed what may be termed a monopoly of the Violin manufacture in and around Naples, there being no record of another maker of importance in that locality at the same period. To the Gagliani we are indebted for the Neapolitan School. Although in its productions we miss the lustrous varnish and handsome wood of Cremona, Naples has furnished us with numbers of instruments of great use.
5The works of Alessandro Gagliano are mostly
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