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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1works of the great master. The instruments of this maker, like those of many others of his class, have passed for the works of Rugerius, and sometimes of Amati. There is a slight likeness about the sound-hole to the work of Franciscus Rugerius; but to the skilled in such matters, no feature interchangeable with Amati can be detected.
3The workmanship has an uniformly neat execution: the scroll is the least successful part, being weak in character as compared with the body. The varnish is equal to any belonging to the Venetian school, and its beauty is only second to that of Cremona; its colour is generally a pale red, of considerable transparency. The wood is most handsome. These Venetians were not a little happy in selecting beautiful wood; in fact, it is scarcely possible to discover a single Venetian instrument the wood of which is plain. The tone of Gobit's works is round, without great power; but the quality is singularly sweet. Ere long these instruments will command more attention.
5GOFRILLER, Matteo, Venice, 1700. Although this maker worked in one of the principal schools, there is but little of the Italian character in his instruments. The varnish is of the poorest kind.
7GOFRILLER, Francisco, Venice. Same period as the above-named, and of similar character.
9GRAGNANI, Antonius, Liburni, 1780.
11Antonius Gragnani fecit
12Liburni Anno 1780
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