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The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
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1The hypothesis, that the violin manufacture in Italy was founded by Germans, I have already advanced in an article in the Vienna Presse, of the 27th October, 1872, (reprinted in the Gazetta de Venezia, on the 11th April, 1873). Since that time, no facts have reached me which militate against it, but rather such as strengthen it. The following are, in brief, the grounds upon which it is based:
3A mustering of instruments at the chateau of Count Lobkowitz, Eisenberg, brought to light several old lutes. Two of these, of fine workmanship, have the inscription—"Laux Maler," (Lucas Maler, the "Amati of lutes," in 1415, at Bologna); a third, to all appearance of
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