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the violin its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
18 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 94. See the scan on archive.org.
1history of the family of the Amati as Violin-makers. Girolamo had a son, Niccolò Giuseppe, born in 1684, who removed with his father to another parish in 1736, as mentioned above, but he was not a maker of Violins.
3Ambrosi, Pietro, Rome and Brescia, about 1730.
5Petrus Ambrosi fecit Brixiae, 17— Average merit. The workmanship resembles that of Balestrieri, as seen in the inferior instruments of that maker.
7Anselmo, Pietro, Cremona, 1701. The instruments of this maker partake of the Ruggeri character. The varnish is rich in colour and of considerable body. Scarce. I have met with two excellent Violoncellos by this maker. Anselmo is said to have worked also in Venice.
9Antoniazzi, Gaetano, Cremona, 1860. The work is passable, but the form faulty. The sound-holes are not properly placed.
11Antonio of Bologna (Antonius Bononiensis). There is a Viol da Gamba by this maker at the Academy of Music, Bologna.
13Antonio, Ciciliano, an Italian maker of Viols. A specimen exists at the Academy of Bologna, without date.
15Assalone, Gasparo, Rome, 18th century. The model is high and the workmanship rough. Thin yellow varnish.
17Bagoni, Luigi (or Bajoni), Milan, from about 1840. Was living in 1876.
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