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Violins and violin makers. Biographical dictionary of the great Italian artistes, their followers and imitators, to the present time. With essays on important subjects connected with the violin, 1866
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1DICTIONARY
2OF
3VIOLIN MAKERS.
5A.
7ACEVO, — Cremona, Pupil of Guiseppe Cappa. This artiste made very good violins in the style of the Amati.
9ADDISON, WILLIAM, London, 1670.
11AIRETON, EDMUND, London, 1730.
12 A good and neat Maker.
14ALDRED, — London,
15 Early English Lute Maker.
17ALETZIE, PAULO, Monaco, 1720-30.
18 Famous for his Violoncellos.
20ALBANI, MATTHIAS, born at Botzen or Bulsani, in the Tyrol, about 1621. This artist was highly esteemed formerly, and Otto says that it is exceedingly difficult to give so exact a description of them as readily to distinguish them from those of Nicholas Amati, who was said to be his master. In the present day, opinions are very different. Nevertheless there are
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