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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
6 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. Printed page 36. See the scan on archive.org.
1early years in that city, and imbibed all the characteristics belonging to its chief makers.
3Upon glancing at this imposing list of makers it is easy to understand that it must have been a lucrative trade which in those days gave support to so many; and, further, that Italy, as compared with Germany, France, or England at that period, must have possessed, at least, more makers by two-thirds than either of those three countries. And this goes far to prove, moreover, that the Italian makers received extensive foreign patronage, their number being far in excess of that required to supply their own country's wants in the manufacture of Violins.
5Brescia was the cradle of Italian Violin-making, for the few makers of bowed instruments (among whom were Gaspard Duiffoprugcar, who established himself at Bologna, Dardelli of Mantua, Linarolli and Maller of Venice) cannot be counted among Violin makers with any degree of certainty. The only maker, therefore, of the Violin of the earliest date, it remains to be said, was Gaspard di Salo, to whom belongs the credit of raising the manufacture of bowed instruments from a rude state to an art. There is a certain similarity between the early works of Gaspard di Salo and those of Gaspard Duiffoprugcar, but the link that connects these two makers is very slight, and in the absence of further information respecting the latter as an actual maker of Violins the credit of authorship must certainly belong to Gaspard di Salo.
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