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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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1as this "pittiful battered" lute!" In the face of this fact (as we suppose it is) we cannot be surprised that enthusiastic amateurs should in the present day give such large prices for the splendid productions of the great Cremona Makers.
3MARIANI, ANTONIO, Pesaro, 1570 to 1620. An imitator of Gaspard di Salo.
5MARATTI, —— Verona, 1690. Made good toned violins, but the workmanship has little character.
7MARQUIS DE LAIR, —— A French maker about 1800.
9MARSHALL, JOHN, London, 1760,
10MARTIN, —— London, 1790.
12MAUCOTEL, CHARLES, London. An excellent workman, who has produced some beautiful instruments.
14MAUSIELL, LEONARD, Nuremburg, 1725. A capital imitator of Steiner, whose style he followed so closely as to render it (as it is stated) difficult to distinguish the one from the other. This is one of the makers praised by Spohr in his "Violin School," as worthy attention when a good Cremona cannot be got.
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