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The violin manufacture in Italy and its German origin : an historical sketch, 1906
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1that are known to me:—Gasparo Duiffopruggar Bonnoniensis Anno 1511 (the oldest), and 1517 (the latest). The violin which was formerly to be seen in Brussels, bore the date, 1539. From a bass viol the following label is quoted:—"Gaspar Duiffoprugcar à la Coste Sainct Sebastien à Lyon." A lute of the Lyons period, which I met with at the Neustift monastery, bore the simple signature:—Duiffoprugcar à Lyon.
3This is not the place to enter into technical details; but, judging from the few specimens which I myself have met with, and from the description of others, it seems really a matter for astonishment that he should have done so much,
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