Scan 69
The violin & its story : or the history & construction of the violin, 1905
19 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 53. See the scan on archive.org.
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1fiddles like those of the old Brescians, but he was not equal to imparting to them the tone of Gaspar da Salo and Maggini.
3Domenico Montagnana, the best of all the makers who laboured in Venice. He long worked in Cremona, then went to Mantua, and at last to Venice, where his best instruments were made. These were very broad, of good wood, and covered with golden varnish.
5Of the Venetian makers of the second rank at the beginning of the eighteenth century were the following:—
6Santo Serafino, 1730 to 1745; Spirito Sorzana; Pietro Anselmo; the brothers Carl and John Tononis; Anselmus Bellosio, Bodio, the teacher of Petrus Valentinus Novello, who with Marcus Antonino Novello gained a merited reputation. The brothers Francesco and Matteo Cofriller made concert violins of extraordinary power. We have still to mention Dominico Busau, Gantano Bono, Francesco Gobetti (whose violins have very extensive tone), and Zanoli.
8Treviso
9has, so far as we know, only furnished one maker, Pietro della Costa, an intelligent imitator of Stradivarius.
11Turin
12has furnished Catena; John Baptist Guadagnini (1746), excellent imitator of Stradivarius; and de Georgi (1717).
14Lucca.
15Paulus Palma.
17Florence.
18John Baptist de Gabbicellis here distinguished himself; Bartolomeo Christofori, and Landolfi, also worked at Florence. Their instruments are well known by the thick coat of varnish with which they covered them.
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