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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1VIOLIN TONE
3is of Amati character, and generally of yellow-red or yellow-brown colour.
5TEDESCO, LEOPOLDO.—Cremona, Rome. Is all but unknown as a maker, but is mentioned in the Parish Registers of Cremona as a pupil of Niccolò Amati. The name seems to be there spelt "Todesco." He was born in 1625.
7TENTZEL.—Mittenwald; eighteenth century. Kloz school of work.
9TERMANINI, JOSEPH.—Modena; about 1750 and later. Appears to have been a priest who made fiddles. Work rare and of no particular merit.
11TESTORE.—Milan; seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A widely known and important family of makers whose instruments, though chiefly of second-class workmanship and inferior finish, are much sought after by players on account of their excellent tone. However rough and unattractive the specimen may appear, a Testore may almost always be relied on to possess a fine tone. Apparently the patronage they were able to obtain did not permit them to do their best save on rare occasions, but there are violins in existence by C. G. and C. A. Testore which prove conclusively that, given the opportunity, these makers were possessed of skill and abilities of a high order. In these rare cases we meet with specimens of good form and finish, handsome wood and brilliant varnish. The average Testore is, however, an instrument which in all or most of these particulars leaves a good deal to be desired. The bellies are almost without exception of pine of the best quality acoustically, but the backs and sides are mostly of plain or small figured native wood, the heads are mean and pinched looking,
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