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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1ITALIAN MAKERS.
3TRAPANI, Raffaele, Naples, about 1800. Large pattern; flat model; purfling deeply laid; edges sharp; scroll heavy.
4VETRINI, Battista, Brescia, about 1629. Yellow varnish of good quality; handsome wood; rather small.
5VIMERCATI, Paolo, Venice, about 1700. Similar to Tononi. Jacob Stainer is said to have worked in the shop of Vimercati.
6WENGER, Padua, Lute-maker, 1622.
7ZANNETTO, Pellegrino, Brescia, 1547. M. Chouquet in his "Catalogue Raisonné" of the instruments at the Conservatoire in Paris, describes a six-string Viol da Gamba of this make.
8ZANOLA, Giovanni Battista. Flat model; rough workmanship; German character.
9Joannes Baptista Zanola, Verona, 17—
10ZANOTTI, Antonio, Mantua, about 1734.
11Antonius Zanotus, fecit Mantuae, anno 1734.
12ZANTI, Alessandro, Mantua, 1765. He copied Pietro Guarneri, but had little knowledge of varnishing, if we are to judge from the few instruments of this maker extant.
13ZANURE, Pietro, Brescia, 1509. A maker of Viols.
14ZENATTO, Pietro, Treviso, about 1634.
15Pietro Zenatto fece in Treviso Anno 1634.
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