Scan 156
The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
13 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026. Printed page 110. See the scan on archive.org.
1He was born in Granada, and was called the Spanish Stradivarius. He died about 1780, and is said to have been seventy years of age.
3CORDANO, Jacopo Filippo, Genoa, about 1774.
5Jacobus Philipus Cordanus, fecit Genuae anno sal. 1774.
7Corna, Dalla, Brescia, early maker of Viols, about 1530.
9Costa, Pietro Antonio dalla, Venice and Treviso
10The label he used is curious. He copied the Brothers Amati with much skilfulness. The sound-holes are like those of the early instruments of the Amati; the varnish is golden in colour and excellent in quality; the scroll, as usual with all imitations, is a weak feature, but does not lack originality.
12DARDELLI, Pietro, Mantua, about 1500. Is described as a maker of Lutes and Viols. M. Fétis relates, in his "Biographie des Musiciens," that the painter Richard, of Lyons, possessed about the year 1807 a beautiful Lute by this maker, which was made for the Duchess of Mantua. The instrument is described as richly inlaid with ebony, ivory, and silver, dated 1497, and having the name "Padre Dardelli." On the belly the Mantuan arms are represented. M.
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