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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1Stradivari and his contemporaries from Benedetto Bergonzi, which M. Vuillaume imparted to M. Fétis.
3BERTASSI, Ambrogio, Piadena (near Cremona), about 1730.
5BORELLI, Andrea, Parma, about 1735. His instruments are little known; they resemble those of Giuseppe Guadagnini.
7BRENSIO, Girolamo (BRENSIUS, Hieronymus), Bologna. Maker of Viols about the close of the 15th century. Reference has been made to the Viols of this maker in the first Section of this work.
9BRESCIA DA, Battista. A Pochette or Kit of this maker is at the Academy of Music, Bologna, signed "Baptista Bressano;" the period assigned to it is the end of the 15th century.
11BROSCHI, Carlo, Parma.
12 Carlo Broschi in Parma, fecit 1732.
14BUDIANI, Giovita, Brescia, 1580—1620. Many of these instruments have been attributed to Maggini. The purfling is doubled. Signor Dragonetti is said to have possessed a Double-Bass by this maker, which he strung with four strings. Dragonetti preferred playing upon three-stringed instruments.
16BUSSETO, Giovanni M., Cremona, 1540—1580. Maker of Viols. M. Fétis mentions, in his "Biographie des Musiciens," that Busseto derived his name from Busseto, a borough in the Duchy of Parma, where he was born. He also mentions a Viol of this maker, dated 1580, which was found at Milan in 1792.
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