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The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
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1it began to spread. Like a tree that grows in good soil, and to which Heaven sends showers and sunshine, so it sent forth its shoots and branches in all directions. In most of the large towns of Northern Italy it had a seat; and, next to Cremona, it attained to the greatest importance in Venice and Milan. From Northern Italy, it passed through Florence and Rome, to Naples and Palermo. Altogether, as far as I have been able to ascertain, the independent makers numbered about two hundred.
3That which not a little assisted its advancement, was the successive inheritance by members of the same family. Before the Amati, we find, in
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