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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1AND VIOLIN MAKERS
3is manifestly absurd having regard to dates. Instruments by him with the pointed sound-hole exist, which were made long before del Gesù's admitted period of activity, i.e. 1725-45. Of the other makers of the name very little seems to be certainly known.
5GRAND-GÉRARD. — Mirecourt; early nineteenth century. Branded instruments of rather large flat pattern and commonplace character. The tone is not unfrequently passable.
7GRANDJON.—Mirecourt; nineteenth century. A family of makers. Instruments of moderate price and better class "factory" style of work.
9GROBLICZ, MARTIN. — Warsaw; eighteenth century. The name is commonly printed "Grobitz" in books dealing with the violin. Examples scarce. Pretty work of Stainer pattern. Sometimes seen with lion-heads. The name is found in more modern instruments of a very common type, and with edges flush with the sides, instead of overlapping them.
11GROSSMAN, DR. MAX.—Born Berlin. Contemporary. Is chiefly known as originator of a system of attuning the backs and bellies of instruments. This has been applied to modern examples made in Germany and sold under the name of the "New Cremona" violins, etc.
13GUADAGNINI.—Piacenza, Turin, Milan, Parma; eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. A very celebrated family originating at either Piacenza or Cremona. LORENZO, the founder, claims in some of his tickets to have been a Cremonese. According to Hart and other writers, his dates run from about 1695 to 1740, or later. Much has been written about
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