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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1AND VIOLIN MAKERS
3of very good quality. Name branded above the tail pin. His second Christian name does not seem to appear upon his tickets. GIOVANNI TONONI worked in Bologna and apparently in Venice also. His instruments date from about 1689-1740. Model varies, but is chiefly of large Amati character. Good yellow or brown-red varnish of clear texture. FELICE TONONI dates from Bologna and was possibly the founder of the family, his early tickets dating from about 1670. High model, good clear varnish. Two other names are mentioned, GUIDO and PIETRO.
5TOPPANI, ANGELO DE.—Rome; about 1730-45. High built fiddles. Tecchler school.
7TOROSSI, CESARE.—Novara; about 1840. Little known.
9TOURTE.—Paris; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Celebrated bow-makers. Beyond being the father of the famous François, "Tourte père," though himself a bow-maker, did not achieve any particular distinction. He died about 1780. XAVER or SAVÈRE, his elder son, made some good bows, and some very indifferent ones. FRANCOIS TOURTE was born in 1747, and died in April, 1835. He made a very large number of bows, and continued to work until very late in life. They are unstamped, and save in about two cases, in which he inserted small engraved labels in the nuts, he used no distinguishing mark or brand to identify his work. He was admittedly the finest bowmaker who ever lived, but the work of other French makers is often quite equal in merit to all but his very best examples, and even then it is more a matter of superb finish than of practical utility. He probably was mainly instrumental in settling the correct length of the bow, but beyond this it is very
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