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The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
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1emigration of himself or family from Germany; for, at that time, the German lute-makers gravitated towards Northern Italy, as we observe in other cases. The name Gerle, or Kerle, is often met with in Germany. In the middle of the 17th century, it was borne by a celebrated organist. It is possible that Johannes Kerlino, the first of known violin-makers, was a member of the family of lute-makers, Gerle, which flourished in Nurembourg about the year 1460; and that, for the—in Italy—unpronounceable German G, a K was substituted. In the collection of instruments on show at the South Kensington Museum, in London, in August, 1872, there were two violins bearing
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