Scan 284
The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1VIMERCATI, Paolo, Venice, about 1700. Similar to Tononi. Jacob Stainer is said to have worked in the shop of Vimercati.
3WENGER, Padua, Lute-maker, 1622.
5ZANNETTO, Pellegrino, Brescia, 1547. M. Chouquet in his "Catalogue Raisonné" of the instruments at the Conservatoire in Paris, describes a six-string Viol da Gamba of this make.
7ZANOLA, Giovanni Battista. Flat model; rough workmanship; German character.
9Joannes Baptista Zanola, Verona, 17—
11ZANOTTI, Antonio, Mantua, about 1734.
12Antonius Zanotus, fecit Mantuæ, anno 1734.
14ZANTI, Alessandro, Mantua, 1765. He copied Pietro Guarneri, but had little knowledge of varnishing, if we are to judge from the few instruments of this maker extant.
16ZANURE, Pietro, Brescia, 1509. A maker of Viols.
18ZENATTO, Pietro, Treviso, about 1634.
19Pietro Zenatto fece in Treviso Anno 1634.
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