Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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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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1are of the flat Stradiuarius Model, made of good wood, with amber varnish, and therefore present considerable similarity to their patterns.
3BAGANZI, —— see Bergonzi.
5BAGATELLA, PIETRO,—Padua, 1766.
6Said not to be very good.
8BAGATELLA, ANTONIO,—Padua, 1782.
9Author of a Work on the construction of Instruments, from which Bishop in his Translation of Otto, has appended a Theory for making a Violin on a very simple plan. He made some excellent Violins after Cremona patterns.
11BAINES, —— London, about 1780.
13BAKER, —— Oxford about 1720.
15BALESTRIERI, THOMAS,
16This excellent Maker was a pupil of Stradiuarius, and made after his model, The Author has seen an Instrument by this Artist, which is of the large flat pattern and has a magnificent and brilliant tone. The wood of the back and ribs rather plain—the belly very fine open grain, purfling not very neat—varnish reddish

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