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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
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1Fétis was unable to discover any tidings of this interesting instrument after the death of Richard. Dardelli was a Franciscan monk at Mantua, and occupied himself with making musical instruments and inlaying them. Work of any kind executed under such circumstances is rarely found to be other than artistic.
3Despine, Alexander, Turin, nineteenth century. A very good maker; worked with Pressenda, whose labels his instruments sometimes bear.
5Dieffopruchar, Magno, Venice, 1612. Lutemaker. An instrument of this make is at the Academy of Music, Bologna. M. Engel remarks,1 "There can be no doubt that we have here the Italianised name of the German Magnus Tieffenbrucker, who lived in Italy." There appears to be a connection between these Venetian Lutemakers of this name and Duiffoprugcar of the sixteenth century.
7Dominicelli, Ferrara, said to have worked about 1700.
9Duiffoprugcar, Gaspar, Bologna. This famous maker of Viols is said to have settled in Bologna in the early part of the sixteenth century. He appears to have obtained much renown as an inlayer of musical instruments, and it is stated that Francis I., upon the occasion of his visit to Italy in 1515, prevailed upon the Viol-maker
111 "Musical Myths and Facts," 1876.
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