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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1CALCAGNI, Bernardo, Genoa about 1740. Neat workmanship, small scroll, flat model, well-cut sound-holes, Stradivari pattern, orange-red varnish.
3CALVAROLA, Bartolommeo, Bologna, about 1753. The work is neatly executed. These instruments are somewhat like those of Ruggeri in form. The scroll is weak, and ill-proportioned.
5CAMILLI, Camillo, Mantua, 17— The form partakes of that of Stradivari; wood usually of excellent quality. The sound-hole is rather wide and short. The varnish resembles that of Landolfi, but less brilliant.
7CAPPA, Gioffredo, Cremona, 1590—1640. According to Lancetti—who received his information from Count Cozio di Salabue—Gioffredo Cappa was always regarded in Piedmont as a pupil of Antonio and Girolamo Amati, and therefore worked in Cremona during his early years. He removed to Piedmont, possibly, that he might have greater scope for the exercise of his talents, it being, no doubt, difficult for him to obtain any important patronage, surrounded as he was at Cremona by so many famous men engaged in the same occupation as himself.
9Count Cozio failed to discover any information
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