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The violin & its story : or the history & construction of the violin, 1905
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3The oldest masters of the art of the lutemaker: Joan Kervlino, 1449; Pietro Davdelli, 1500; Kaspar Duiffoprugar, 1510; etc., etc. School of Brescia—the first violin makers, Gaspar da Salo, J. P. Maggini, etc. School of Cremona—the Amati, Ant. Stradivario (Stradivarius), Giuseppe Guarnerio (Guarnerius). Pupils of these masters. The schools of Milan, Venice, etc. The German School: Jacobus Stainer, Albani, M. Klotz, etc. Founding of the art at Mittenwald. German Masters who followed the Italians, or copied Stainer. French Masters: Lupot, Gand, Vuillaume. The fortunes of the art of violin making, from Stainer to the present time. The experiments of the various masters; Savart's investigations. The decline of the violin maker's art, and its causes.
5In the foregoing section we have stated that Praetorius was the first author who treats of the violin in its perfected form as we know it to-day. This fact leads us to assume that the class of instruments in question must have come into more or less extensive use in the beginning of the seventeenth century, but at the same time affords no help in discovering the period of its origin; and thus we are compelled to go back to the cradle of the art of the lute maker.
7In this respect the fifteenth century furnishes us with one name only. According to Laborde, there was in
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