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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1LANZA, Antonio Maria, 1674. Copied the Brescian makers.
3LAVAZZA, Santino, Milan, about 1700.
5Santino Lavazza fece in Milano in Contrada larga 17—
7LAVAZZA, Antonio, Milan.
9Lavazza Antonio Maria fece in Milano in Contrada larga 17—
11LINAROLLI, Venturo, Venice, 1520. A maker of Viols.
13LOLY, Jacopo, Naples, 17th century. Of the Grancino type. Scroll diminutive. Yellow varnish. Material very hard. Flat model. He made a few large tenors.
15MAGGINI, Giovanni Paolo, Brescia, 1590—1640. This famous maker followed Gasparo da Salò, and is usually counted as his pupil. There is no authority for this statement beyond the similarity of form to be traced in their respective instruments. No Italian maker is more frequently mistaken than Maggini. Any instrument having ornamentation on the back in the shape of purfled scroll-work is at once said to be by Paolo Maggini. Barak Norman, the old English maker, thus comes in for a large share of Maggini's patronage, as also a vast number of early German makers, who adopted similar devices; to the real connoisseur, however, there is no difficulty in distinguishing the work. A more pardonable error is the confusion of Gasparo da Salò and Maggini, which is of frequent occurrence. The Double Basses of these two makers have much in common to the eye of the not deeply versed examiner. Maggini, however, was not so successful as his compeer in the selection of the form of his instruments. In them we miss the harmony of outline belonging to those of Gasparo, particularly as relates to his Double Basses. Gasparo's
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