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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1eighteenth century. They appear to have made many Tenors. The workmanship is good, and also the modelling of the later-dated instruments. The older ones are rather high, but the varnish is brilliant. The wood is somewhat hard. Count Cozio was a patron of the Brothers Mategazza, and he appears to have increased his knowledge of Italian Violins from information acquired from them.
3MARATTI, Verona, about 1700.
4MARCHETTI, Enrico, Turin, now living.
5MARIANI, Antonio, Pesaro, from about 1580 to 1619.
6Long middle bouts and corners; style and work very primitive, mostly double purfled.
7MEIBERI, Francesco, Leghorn, 1750.
8MESSEGUER, Spanish, about 1646.
9MEZADRI, Alessandro, Ferrara, 1690—1722. The pattern is inelegant, and the sound-holes too close.
10MEZADRI, Francesco, Milan, about 1712.
11MIALFI, Joannes, 1769. The label is in Spanish. Ordinary character of work.
12MONTAGNANA, Domenico, Cremona and Venice, 1700—1740. Pupil of Antonio Stradivari. After leaving the workshop of his famous master, he followed his art in Cremona. He afterwards removed to Venice, where Violin manufacture was in the most flourishing condition, and adopted the name of "Cremona" as the sign of his house. In days when houses were unnumbered, tradesmen were found by their sign, and they were often puzzled to select one both distinctive and effective. The Violin-makers of Italy, having exhausted the calendar of its Saints emblematic of Harmony, left it to
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