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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1scrolls are larger than those of Amati but of the same type. There are many splendid violoncellos of these makers and a few tenors. Some of the former are very large. Francisco Ruggeri is mentioned by Spohr in his list of instruments to be sought for in the absence of the three great makers, Nicholas Amati, Antonio Stradiuarius and Joseph Guarnerius.
3RUGGERI, GUIDO, Cremona, 1679.
5RUGGERI, GIOVANNI BAPTISTA, son of Francisco. Brescia, 1696. Mentioned above.
7RUGGERI, PIETRO GIACOMO. Brescia 1700 to 1720. The celebrated violoncellist Piatti plays on an instrument by this maker, and the tone is uncommonly fine and sonorous as all who have heard him know.
9RUGGERI, VINCENZIO, Cremona, 1700 to 1730.
11RUPPERT, FRANCIS, Erfruth, made some excellent instruments of a very flat model, but generally omitted the linings

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