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The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
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1Violin Manufacture in Italy.
3appear in this manner of spelling, the solution seems very simple when it is written according to the German orthography—Tieffenbrucker.*
5Tieffenbrucker was long known by name, through a portrait engraved in 1512 by Pierre Voëirriot,† and Gerber also refers to him (Neues Tonkünstler-
7* As an addition to the orthographical evidence offered by Dr. Schebek, it may be remarked that the collection of musical instruments in the South Kensington Museum includes a lute by a certain Magnus Tieffenbrucker, and also the photograph of a violin manufactured by Casparo Duiffoprugcar, presumably the father of the afore-mentioned.—W. E. L.
9† In Mendel's Musikalisches Conversations Lexikon, now in process of publication, we read—"Gaspard Duiffoprugcar, one of the most celebrated lute and string manufacturers of the sixteenth century, was born
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