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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1nerius del Jesù falls with the hammer to the well-informed individual for ten pounds. He demands possession of it at once, in case another may be substituted, and retires perfectly satisfied with his day's work. The wholesale copyists are those who manufacture Violins in Bavaria and France in large factories, where the Violins undergo all kinds of processes to make them modern antiques. The wood is put into ovens and baked until it assumes the required brownness, or steeped in strong acids until it becomes more like a piece of charred wood than anything else, the sharp edges removed by the file—the wear of years effected in a few moments by rubbing down those parts subject to friction—ticketed and dated regardless alike of orthography and chronology, the date being generally before or after the original's existence. These imitations are so bare-faced as to render them comparatively harmless.
3GUIDANTUS, Giovanni F., Bologna, 1740. Model high. Sound-hole long. Instruments undersized. Purfling badly let in; the outer form inelegant, particularly the middle bouts.
5GULETTO.
7JULIANO, Francisco, Rome, 1701.
9KERLINO, 1449. Maker of Viols. Numerous instruments of the Violin shape have been attributed to this maker, particularly those of quaint appearance, but it is doubtful whether he made any instruments but those of the Viol type.
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