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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators. : With several wood engravings from photographs of the works of Stradiuarius, Guarnerius, Amati, and others, 1880

17 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 89. See the scan on archive.org.

1MANTEGATIA, Petrus Johannes, Mediolani, 1780. Guadagnini character. The work is well done, and the modelling good. His Tenors are among his best instruments.
3MARATTI, C. B., Verona, 1700.
5MARIANI, Antonio, 1568. He has the characteristics of Maggini, but the work is inferior and the wood particularly plain.
7MEZZADIE, Ferrara, 1690—1722. The pattern is inelegant, and the sound-holes are too close.
9MONTADE, Gregory, Cremona, 1730. Copied Stradiuarius.
11MONTAGNANA, Dominicus, Cremona and Venice, 1700—1740. Pupil of Antonius Stradiuarius.
13Dominicus Montagnana Sub Signum Cremonæ Venetiis 17 one of two readings
14Dominicus Montagnana Sub Signum Cremonae Venetiis 17 one of two readings
16After leaving the workshop of his famous master, he followed his art in Cremona. Many of his instruments were dated from that place. He afterwards removed to Venice, where Violin manufacture was in the most flourishing condition. In this place he soon attained great popularity, and made the splendid specimens of his art with which we are so familiar. The instructions which he had received at Cremona enabled him to surpass all in Venice. He gained great knowledge of the qualities of material, and of the thicknesses to be observed; and, moreover, he carried with him the superior form of the Cremonese school, and the glorious varnish. Mr. Reade names him "the mighty Venetian," an appellation not a whit too high-sounding, though it may appear so to the half-informed. The truth is, that Montagnana is less known than any

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