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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1found time to exercise his skilful powers to their full extent, and has thus bequeathed to us some of the finest specimens of the copyist's art.
3His workmanship is of a lighter description than that of Lupot, and is, therefore more graceful. The sound-hole is admirably cut, and the scroll also well carved.
5PANSANI, Antonio, Rome, 1735.
6PASTA, Antonio, Brescia, 1700—1730. Good work. Model a little high; varnish of soft quality.
7PASTA, Domenico, Brescia, about 1700.
8PICINO, Padua, 1712. High model; dark varnish.
9PLATNER, Michel, Rome, about 1750. The instruments of this maker resemble those of Tecchler, both in workmanship and varnish.
10Michael Platner fecit Romae anno 17—
11POLLUSCA, Antonio, Rome, about 1751.
12PRESSENDA, Giovanni Francesco, Turin. Born in the year 1777. The Violins bearing the label
13Joannes Franciscus Pressenda
14q. Raphael fecit Taurini
15Anno Domini 1826.
16of Pressenda are excellently made, and in many instances the varnish is superior to that met with on any Violins dated from Italy in the present century. Pressenda appears to have interested himself to some extent in the matter of varnish. In a little book published in Italy* there is the following passage: "A pale reflexion of the old art (Violin-making) is found in Piedmont, with Guadagnini." The writer continues
18* "L'Italie économique," 1847.
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