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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1wood of which is often plain. The varnish is of good quality and dark brown colour. He also made Violins and Violas, the latter being excellent instruments.
3RUGGERI, Giovanni Battista, Cremona and Brescia. The word Bon after his name refers to his having been a citizen of Bologna. Vincenzo Lancetti speaks of it being certain that he called himself Bononiensis.
5Io: Bapt. Rogerius Bon: Nicolai Amati de Cremona Alumnus Brixiae fecit Anno Domino 1705.
7The instruments of this maker are of a different pattern to those of Francesco. They are higher modelled, the sound-holes less elegant, and the scroll heavier. They possess, however, high merits, and command prices nearly equivalent to those of the instruments of Francesco. The labels of this maker are sometimes met with printed in red ink. The instruments he made of large Amati pattern are highly valued. He appears to have worked from about the close of the seventeenth century. Count Cozio di Salabue and Lancetti speak of G. B. Ruggeri having worked down to 1723, and possibly later, and that he lived for many years in Brescia. There are some instruments bearing original Amati labels of this make, made, doubtless, when he was in the shop of Amati.
9SALÒ, Gasparo da. The information we have relative to this celebrated maker is of the slightest kind. His label is indicative of his having been
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