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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1VIOLIN TONE
3strung as violoncellos. Violins by Barak Norman exist, although this has been denied by some writers. His monogram in purfling appears under the fingerboards, and sometimes on the backs. Some large tenors of high build are in existence.
5NORRIS, JOHN.—London. Died 1818. Founded the well-known business of Norris and Barnes, for many years carried on in Coventry Street. He learned fiddle-making with Thomas Smith, but very little seems to be known of him as a workman.
7NOVELLO.—Venice; eighteenth century. Three makers of the name are mentioned. The only examples of violins seen by the writer were by Pietro Valentino, who was at work in the closing years of the century, and describes himself in his tickets as a pupil of Bellosio.
9NÜRNBERGER.—Markneukirchen; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A large family of workmen, two or three of whom have turned their attention to bow-making. Some of their work in this department is excellent, and will bear comparison for style and finish with that of the best living French bow-makers.
11OBBÕ, MARCO.—Naples; earlier part of eighteenth century. Little known. His full name does not seem to be known, but the final O in his label has the abbreviation mark (as above) over it. Flattish fiddles. Yellow, or yellow-brown varnish.
13OBICI, BARTOLOMEO.—Verona; seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Large violins. Yellow varnish. Brescian style of work.
15ODDONE, CARLO GIUSEPPE.—Turin. Born 1866. A clever maker, who was for a time in England, but has been established in Turin since 1901.
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