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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916

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1VIOLIN TONE
3POLLER.—Mittenwald; eighteenth century. A family of makers. In the labels the name is usually spelt "Boller."
5POLLUSCA, ANTONIO.—Eighteenth century. Tecchler school of work.
7POSCH (BOSCH), ANTONY.—Vienna; 1677–1742. A son, also named ANTHONY, died in 1749. Violins generally high built. Both makers exhibit the Austrian double eagle on their labels.
9POSTACCHINI, ANDREAS.—Fermo. Two makers of this name dated from Fermo. The earlier died between 1820–30. The instruments are somewhat of Gagliano type and appearance, and are rising in value. The second Andreas died about 1857.
11POSTIGLIONE, VINCENZO.—Naples. Born 1835. A very neat workman. Has made some handsome and well-finished violins of Guarneri del Gesù pattern.
13PRESSENDA, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO.—Turin, Alba, Carmagnola. Born 1777. Died 1854. One of the most important Italian makers of the nineteenth century. His violins date chiefly from Turin, but he also worked in Alba and Carmagnola, and possibly for a short period in Marseilles. A well-known repairer told the writer that three instruments by Pressenda dating from the last-named place had passed through his hands. He learned his business in Cremona with Storioni, and went to Turin about 1820. Early specimens of his work are more or less after the pattern of Stradivari, but later he designed a pattern of his own in which he somewhat changed the character of the sound-holes and the style of the arching. The wood of his instruments is nearly always handsome, the

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