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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1many of the Violins by Girolamo Amati, son of Niccolò, were attributed to this maker.
3Joseph Schneider Papiæ
4Alumnus Nicolai Amati Cremonae
5fecit Anno 17—
7SOCCHI, Vincenzo, 1661, Bologna. In the Catalogue of M. Chouquet mention is made of a Kit or Pochette by this maker in the Paris Conservatoire.
9STREGNER, Magno, Venice, Lute-maker.
11STORIONI, Lorenzo, Cremona, about 1769 to 1799. The last of the old makers who evinced any powers of originality. Although there is an almost total absence of refinement in his works, there is much that is clever, which has already caused these instruments to be valued very highly. He appears to have made Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù his idol. Although his instruments cannot be considered as copies, yet there is evidence of his having made use of the salient points belonging to Guarneri, which he fitted, as it were, to his own model. He had much of the disregard of mere appearance which Guarneri so often displayed, and seems to have been guided by similar fancies. His freak was to place his sound-holes in all sorts of ways, scarcely twice alike. His outline is always vigorous, but without thought of symmetrical appearance. There is not an instrument of his make that could have been made upon a mould—they were built from the blocks, and the result, as
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