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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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1NOVELLO, MARCO ANTONIO, Venezia, same date. Both these makers are in good esteem.
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5OBUE, BARTOLOMEO, Verona.
6ODOARDI, GUISSEPPE, early 18th Century.
7OTT, JEAN, Nuremberg. Lute maker, 15th Century.
8OTTO, JACOB AUGUSTUS, born at Gotha, 1762, died 1830. Author of the celebrated Book on the Construction of the Violin. He made some good instruments which, in his book he says he "proved" by a machine which played them in thirds, fourths, and fifths for a continued period, thus mellowing and perfecting the tone. We do not believe in this doctrine. From all past experience, there can be no doubt that whatever pains or trouble a maker may take to bring his instruments, while new, to bear the character of old, his labour is quite useless. There is no instance of an instrument becoming famous for its fine tone till it had attained a good old age.
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