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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1AND VIOLIN MAKERS
3PELLIZON, GÖRZ.—Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A family who have been at work until very recent years. Instruments not frequently seen in England. The best known is ANTONIO, the founder, who died in 1850.
5PEMBERTON, EDWARD.—London; seventeenth century. Name appears in most books on the violin. Varnish said to be good. Work indifferent.
7PENZE, IGNATIO.—Schönbach; circa 1760. Appears to have been a German named Penzl. The name is spelt in different ways, and occasionally is quoted as Ponze or Ponzel. According to labels to which writer's attention has been drawn, the violins are dated from Cremona. They have little or nothing in common with Cremonese work. The tone is described as of good quality. Yellowish red varnish.
9PEREGRINO, or PELEGRINO. See ZANETTO.
11PÉRON, NICOLAS.—Paris; latter half of eighteenth century. Yellow-brown fiddles. Fairly good average work.
13PERRIN.—Mirecourt; middle nineteenth century. Useful instruments. Dated from Paris.
15PERRY, THOS.—Dublin. Died 1818. The violins bearing his stamp vary enormously, some being very fine works of art, and others quite indifferent. A considerable number were made after his death. Wilkinson, his son-in-law and partner, was a poor workman, and continued the business for several years, so that the stamp appears on fiddles dated well into the "thirties" of the last century. Perry's earliest examples date from about 1760 or a little later. The
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