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Scan 43
The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 35. See the scan on archive.org.
1was overlooked, that, a hundred years earlier, a Joannes Baptista Guadagnini worked independently; and that consequently there must have been at least two masters bearing that name. The active life of Alexander Mezzadrie, of Ferrara, was fixed between the years 1690 and 1710; but genuine instruments of his make, with genuine labels dating from the year 1616, are still in existence. Errors of this, and similar kinds—of which many instances might be mentioned, pass from one work to another, because the searching light of criticism has not yet been brought to bear upon the subject.
3To root them out, there are two methods which recommend themselves.
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