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The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
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1addition to lutes, Dardelli and the Linarollos made violas; and Duiffoprugcar, violas and violins. Indeed, there was an instrument which served to link together the two species, viz., the bow-lyre (lire d’arco). In Germany, as long as the lute remained in use, we have evidence that its manufacture was always associated with that of violins, constituting a single profession; as, even at the present day, occasional trade nomenclature shows. In France, there is no other name for the violin-maker than "luthier," which word evidently bears reference to the lute, (luthe), period. Is it then unlikely that these old German lute-makers, Lucas Maler, of Bologna, and Marx
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