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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
72 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 490. See the scan on archive.org.
1INDEX.
3Gerle, Johann, Lutes and Viols… 254
4Germain, Emile … … … 231
5Germain, Joseph Louis … … 231
6German Makers, List of … … 249
7German origin of the Violin, early indications of … … … 13
8German School, The, 246; its poverty as to makers of originality … … … 248
9German Violins, no trace of in the time of Gasparo da Salò … 246
10Geroni, Domenico … … … 110
11Giardini, Felice, composer and Violinist … … … 375
12Gibbs, James … … … 302
13Gibertini, Antonio … … … 110
14Gigeours, The, of Germany … 10
15Gilkes, William, Double-Bass maker … … … 303
16Gilkes, Samuel, pupil of Forster; an excellent workman … 302
17Gillott Collection, The; its origin, character, and dispersion 354—360
18Giustiniani, Lorenzo, his letter to Stradivari … … … 195
19Gobetti (Gobit), Francesco, high character of his work… … 110
20Goding Collection, The … … 354
21Goding, Mr. James, his Stradivari with an alien scroll; a curious coincidence … … … 435
22Gofriller, Francesco … … … 112
23Gofriller, Matteo … … … 112
24Gosselin … … … 231
25Gough, Walter … … … 303
26Gragnani, Antonio … … … 112
27Grancino, Francesco … … … 114
28Grancino, Giovanni … … … 113
29Grancino, Giovanni Battista … 114
30Grancino, Paolo, pupil of Niccolò Amati; description of his work "Grand Amati" pattern, The … 84
31Grand-Gerard … … … 231
32Grandson, Fils … … … 231
33Graun, Violinist to the King of Prussia … … … 388
34Griesser, Matthias … … … 254
35Grimm, Carl … … … 254
36Grobitz A… … … 254
37Grosset, Paul François … … 231
38Gross-Geige, The … … … 17
39Grulli, Pietro … … … 114
40Guadagnini, Antonio … … 119
41Guadagnini, Carlo … … … 118
42Guadagnini, Francesco and Giuseppe, now living at Turin … 119
43Guadagnini, Gaetano … … 118
45(no line here) one of two readings
46Guadagnini, Giovanni Battista, pupil of Stradivari; description of his work … … … 115
47Guadagnini, Giuseppe … … 118
48Guadagnini, Lorenzo, the first of his family; high character of his work … … … 114
49Guarneri, Andrea, the pioneer of his family; pupil of Amati; his Violins and Violoncellos 119, 120
50Guarneri at a discount … … 438
51Guarneri, Giuseppe (son of Andrea); originality of his style, and peculiarity of his sound-holes; character of his varnish; high value of his Violins, Violas, and Violoncellos … 120—122
52Guarneri, Giuseppe (del Gesù); his peculiar cypher, 123; register of his birth, 124; probably a pupil of his cousin Giuseppe, 126; his fertility of design, 128; traditions as to his "prison Fiddles," 131; three orders of copyists, 134; Paganini's Guarneri, and his influence in raising the credit of the maker … … … 327
53Guarneri, Pietro (brother of Giuseppe filius Andrae); description of his work … … … 122
54Guarneri, Pietro (son of Giuseppe filius Andrae) … … … 123
55Guersan, Louis … … … 232
56Gugemmos … … … 254
57Guidanti, Giovanni (Joannis Guidantus), specimen at exhibition of Milan, 1881; character of his work … … … 137
58Gunn, John, his essay on stringed instruments … … … 7
60(no line here) one of two readings
61H
62Habeneck, François Antoine, composer … … … 380
63Haensel, Johann A. … … 254
64Hamberger, Joseph … … 254
65Hamm, Johann Gottfried … 254
66Handel, George Frederick, and the Royal Society of Musicians, 384; influence of his works on Violin-playing… … … 390
67Harbour … … … 303
68Hardie, Matthew… … … 303
69Hardie, Thomas … … … 303
70Hare, John … … … 303
71Hare, Joseph … … … 303
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