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Gaetano Antoniazzi

"Few violin makers in the Italy of Gaetano Antoniazzi's generation became proficient and well-known, for violin-making in the second half of the 19th century proved to be more feeble than in the first..." [ extract - p.280 ]

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Photographs of 6 violins

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Violin c.1870