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The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
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1lexikon, 1812), but only as far as he was enabled by the existence of the portrait. Even up to the present time, it has not been possible to ascertain the particulars of his life and works. It is only known that from Bologna—the town from which his first works are dated—he was called to Paris by Francis the First, where he furnished a
3in the Italian Tyrol in 1514. After having travelled considerably, he lived for a time in Bologna and Paris, but eventually settled in Lyons."
5On comparing dates, the reader will immediately become aware that an error has crept into this statement; for, whereas Dr. Schebek speaks of violins of Tieffenbrucker's manufacture of the year 1511, his birth is here, curiously enough, fixed in 1514. No doubt can arise as to identity while there is such a coincidence in other respects.—W. E. L.
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