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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1English possess some of the finest specimens of this maker, and were probably the first to recognise their sterling merits.
3GUADAGNINI, Milan, 1740—1770.
5GUADAGNINI, Giovanni Battista, Piacenza, 1754—1785. The instruments of this maker are frequently equal to those of Johannes Baptista. His wood is also excellent.
7GUADAGNINI, Guiseppe, Parma, 1760—1800. Brother of G. B. Guadagnini. Very good wood; model a trifle more raised than in the instruments of his brother; sound-hole well cut, in imitation of Stradiuarius.
9GUADAGNINI, Turin, 1868.
11GUARNERIUS, Andreas, Cremona, 1630—1695. The name of Guarnerius is probably known to every possessor of a Violin throughout the world. The familiar style is attached to scores of copies and non-copies every week and despatched to every quarter of the globe. Little did Andrea imagine that he was destined to be the means of lifting his patronymic of Guarnerius to such a giddy height!
13Andreas Guarnerius, like Andrew Amati, was the pioneer of the family, and but for his influence we might never have had the extraordinary works of his nephew, Joseph. How full of interest would the smallest events of Andrea's workshop life prove if
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