Scan 122
The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1ITALIAN MAKERS.
3CAMILLI, Camillo, Mantua, 17—. The form partakes of that of Stradivari; wood usually of excellent quality. The sound-hole is rather wide and short. The varnish resembles that of Landolfi, but less brilliant.
5CAPPa, Gioffredo, Cremona, 1590—1640. According to Lancetti—who received his information from Count Cozio di Salabue—Gioffredo Cappa was always regarded in Piedmont as a pupil of Antonio and Girolamo Amati, and therefore worked in Cremona during his early years. He removed to Piedmont, possibly, that he might have greater scope for the exercise of his talents, it being, no doubt, difficult for him to obtain any important patronage, surrounded as he was at Cremona by so many famous men engaged in the same occupation as himself.
7Count Cozio failed to discover any information relative to the name of Cappa in connexion with the records of the town of Saluzzo, and he concluded that Cappa was a Cremonese, there having existed in Cremona families of that name.
9The instruments of Cappa are, even now, little known in England, and twenty years since were recognized only by the most intelligent connoisseurs. The greater number of them consist of works of high merit, and, although not prized at present, must ultimately command prices proportionate to their real value. Their likeness to the instruments of the Amatis is in some instances peculiarly striking, but in others there is a marked dissimilarity. Particularly this is the case in the form of the sound-hole and scroll. The sound-hole is sometimes large, and quite out of keeping
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