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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1Francesco. Lancetti remarks, "Omobono chiefly restored instruments and arranged and regulated them. Francesco, it will be seen, survived his brother about thirteen months, with whom, as with Girolamo Amati, the son of Niccolò, we reach the end of the family's long and historical career of Violin-making. Upon the death of Francesco, the shop in the Piazza San Domenico (now named Piazza Roma) was closed, after having been occupied by the family of Stradivari as Violin-makers for upwards of sixty-three years, and from whence was sent into cathedral, church, and royal orchestras; the largest number of Violins and kindred instruments ever made by one maker—whose works bore the indelible stamp of genius—instruments which have gladdened the sight and hearing of untold thousands. The famous shop, as previously noticed, was next opened by Paolo Stradivari, who was a cloth merchant or warehouseman. Paolo died in 1776, a year after the date of the correspondence which passed between him and Count Cozio di Salabue. Antonio, son of Paolo, born in 1738 and married in 1762, had a son Giacomo, born in 1769 and married in 1797. Cesare, the son of Giacomo, became a physician in Cremona, married in 1838, and left the present representative of the Cremonese branch of the family, Dr. Libero Stradivari, a barrister-at-law, who is an excellent amateur performer on the flute.
3SURSANO, Spirito, Coni, 1714—1735.
4TANEGIA, Carlo Antonio, Milan, early in the 18th century.
5TANINGARD, Giorgio, Rome, 17—.
6TECCHLER, David, Rome, 1680—1743. A highly esteemed
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