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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1DARDELLI, Pietro, Mantua, about 1500. Is described as a maker of Lutes and Viols. M. Fétis relates, in his "Biographie des Musiciens," that the painter Richard, of Lyons, possessed about the year 1807 a beautiful Lute by this maker, which was made for the Duchess of Mantua. The instrument is described as richly inlaid with ebony, ivory, and silver, dated 1497, and having the name "Padre Dardelli." On the belly the Mantuan arms are represented. M. Fétis was unable to discover any tidings of this interesting instrument after the death of Richard. It may be mentioned that Dardelli was a Franciscan monk at Mantua, and occupied himself with making musical instruments and inlaying them. Work of any kind executed under such circumstances is rarely found to be other than artistic. Time was not monetarily appraised, hence the labour undertaken was a labour of love.
3DIEFFOPRUCHAR, Magno, Venice, 1612. Lutemaker. An instrument of this make is at the Academy of Music, Bologna. M. Engel remarks,1 "There can be no doubt that we have here the Italianized name of the German Magnus Tieffenbrucker, who lived in Italy." There appears to be a connexion between these Venetian Lute-makers of this name and Duiffoprugcar of the sixteenth century. Mention is also made of a Lute, dated 1607, by this maker.
5DOMINICELLI, Ferrara, said to have worked about 1700.
7DUIFFOPRUGCAR, Gaspar, Bologna. This famous maker of Viols is said to have settled in Bologna in the early part of the sixteenth century. He appears to have obtained much renown as an inlayer of musical instruments, and it is stated that Francis I., upon the occasion of his visit to Italy in 1515, prevailed upon the Viol-maker to settle in
91 "Musical Myths and Facts," 1876.
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