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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
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1number of instruments manufactured in these places of lesser fame being considerable.
3To enable the reader to understand more readily the various types of Italian Violins, they may be classed as the outcome of five distinct schools. The first is that of Brescia, dating from about 1520 to 1620, and embracing the following makers: Gaspard di Salo, Magini, Mariani, Venturini, Budiani, Mateo Bente, and a few others of less note. The next, and most important school, was that of Cremona, dating from 1550 to 1760, or even later, and including the following makers: Andrea Amati, Jerome Amati, Antony Amati, Nicholas Amati, Jerome Amati son of Nicholas, Andrea Guarnerius, Peter Guarnerius, Joseph Guarnerius the nephew of Andrea, Joseph Guarnerius the son of Andrea, Antonius Stradiuarius, and Carlo Bergonzi. Several well-known makers have been omitted in the foregoing list simply because they were followers of those mentioned, and therefore cannot be credited with originality of design. The makers of Milan and Naples may be braced together as one school, under the name of Neapolitan, dating from 1680 to 1800. This school contains makers of good repute, viz., the members of the Grançino family, Carlo Antonio Testore, Paul Testore, the Gagliano family, and Ferdinand Landolphi. The makers of Florence, Bologna, and Rome may likewise be classed together in a school that dates from 1680 to 1760, and includes the following names: Gabrielli, Anselmo, Florentus, Techler, and Tononi. The Venetian school, dating from 1690 to 1764, has two very prominent members in Domenicus Montagnana and Sanctus Seraphino: but the former maker
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