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The violin & its story : or the history & construction of the violin, 1905
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1have recently gained a certain popularity through one upon which Vieuxtemps played, although before that time Charles de Beriot brought forth great results from his Maggini, and at the same time fixed the attention of artists upon the maker.
3We mention in this place a contemporary of the two makers just referred to, viz., Anton Marini, of Pesaro, who made violins from 1570 to 1620. His instruments were not made upon any fixed principles, and have but little value, being never sought after as rare objects.
5There were yet two other artists in Brescia about 1580—Javietta Budiana and Matteo Bente, whose productions are not equal to those of Maggini, though a few of Bente's are occasionally to be found in the cabinets of collectors.
7Santo Maggini, who must not be confounded with Johann Paul, though he perhaps came of the same family, worked in the seventeenth century. He was not so well known by his violins as by his contra-basses, which are in Italy regarded as the best of their class.
9Other names of makers of this school are Tarisio, Antonio Maria Lousa, and Nella Raphael.
11THE CREMONA SCHOOL.
13The founder of this school, and the head of the family so celebrated for the manufacture of stringed instruments, was—
15Andreas Amati. His family was one of the most ancient and most highly respected in his native city, in the records of which the Amati are mentioned as far back as the year 1097. The precise date of the birth of this master is not known, as the register of births in the church in his district does not reach back to the sixteenth century; but he would appear to have been born about the beginning of that century. Thus, two instruments of Andreas Amati are known which bear the dates of 1546 and 1554 respectively. The first is a three-stringed Rebek, which is (or was) to be found in the priceless
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