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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1we learn that Andrea Guarneri does not appear to have been with Niccolò Amati in 1646, but was so in the year 1653; the register showing that he was at that date married. There is no further reference to his connexion with Niccolò Amati after the year 1653. Andrea was married Dec. 31st, 1652, and had seven children. Two of his sons, namely, Pietro Giovanni and Giuseppe Giovan Battista, became Violin-makers. Andrea died on the 7th of December, 1698, and we learn from the register that he was buried on the following day near the remains of his wife, in the Church of St. Domenico, in the same chapel where the body of Antonio Stradivari was laid forty years later.
3Andrea Guarneri for some years worked upon the model of his master, though he afterwards changed the character of the sound-hole.1 At the same time the form of the instrument became flatter, and the scroll showed signs of originality. The varnish is much varied, but is generally of a light orange colour of beautiful hue; it sometimes has considerable body, but when so, lacks the transparency of light-coloured varnishes. The Violoncellos are of two sizes. The wood in the Violoncellos is often very plain, but possesses singular tone-producing qualities. The Violins of this maker are among his finest efforts; the workmanship is excellent, but has not the fine finish of Amati.
5GUARNERI, Giuseppe Giovan Battista, second son of Andrea, born November 25th, 1666. This maker possessed Joseph Guarnerius filius Andreæ fecit Cremonæ sub titulo S. Teresiae 16 a greater amount of originality than Andrea. His earliest works evidence that power of thinking for himself which, later, led him to con-
71 Lancetti, in his MS., mentions 1670 as about the period of his change of style.
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