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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1years at Rome, about 1625. Todini was the inventor and maker of a great number of musical contrivances, in which clockwork played an important part. He occupied himself with this manufacture for several years, and turned his house into a kind of musical museum. He wrote a pamphlet describing its contents. His name is associated with our subject in having adopted a new mode of stringing the Violono or Double Bass, by using four strings, and playing himself upon the instrument at oratorio performances in Rome. I have mentioned in Section I. that the Violono was originally used with several strings—five, six, or seven—and with frets. Todini is therefore credited with having introduced the method of stringing the Double Bass which led to the conversion of the old Violonos into Double Basses fitted for modern requirements.
3Tononi, Carlo, Bologna. At the exhibition at Milan in 1881, an inlaid Kit of beautiful workmanship was exhibited of this maker.
5Carolo Tunonus fecit Bononiae
6in Platea Castaelionis Anno Domini 1698.
8Tononi, Carlo Antonio, born at Bologna, probably a son of the above, Venice. The model varies very much; those of the flat pattern are excellent instruments. They are large, and beautifully made. The varnish, though inferior to that of Santo Serafino, is similar. These Violins are branded above the tail-pin. His Violins date from about 1716.
10Tononi, Giovanni, about 1700. Similar characteristics.
11Tononi, Felice, Bologna.
12Tononi, Guido, Bologna.
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