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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1relative to the name of Cappa in connexion with the records of the town of Saluzzo, and he concluded that Cappa was a Cremonese, there having existed in Cremona families of the name.
3The instruments of Cappa are, even now, little known in England, and twenty years since were recognized only by the most intelligent connoisseurs. The greater number of them consist of works of high merit, and, although not prized at present, must ultimately command prices proportionate to their real value. Their likeness to the instruments of the Amatis is in some instances peculiarly striking, but in others there is a marked dissimilarity. Particularly this is the case in the form of the sound-hole and scroll. The sound-hole is sometimes large, and quite out of keeping with the elegant outline of Amati. The points of difference may be summed up as follows:—the sound-hole is larger, and more obliquely set in the instrument; the upper portion of the body has a more contracted appearance; the head, as is the case with most makers, differs most, and, in this instance, in no way resembles Amati.
5There are few specimens of Cappa that bear their original labels; most of them are counterfeit "Amatis," and hence the great confusion which has arisen concerning their parentage. Lancetti says, "Foreign professors and amateurs, and particularly the English—though connoisseurs of the good and the beautiful—in buying the instruments of Cappa thought they had acquired those of Amati, the out-
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