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GUARNIERI, or GTJARNERIUS

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GUARNIERI, or GTJARNERIUS , a celebrated See also:family of See also:violin-makers of See also:Cremona. The first was Andreas (c. 1626–1698), who worked with See also:Antonio See also:Stradivari in the workshop of Nicolo See also:Amati (son of Geronimo). Violins of a See also:model See also:original to him are dated from the sign of " St See also:Theresa " in Cremona. His son See also:Joseph (1666–c. 1739) made See also:instruments at first like his See also:father's, but later in a See also:style of his own with a narrow See also:waist; his son, See also:Peter of See also:Venice (b. 1695), was also a See also:fine maker: Another son of Andreas, Peter (Pietro Giovanni), commonly known as " Peter of Cremona " (b. 1655), moved from Cremona and settled at See also:Mantua, where he too worked " sub signo Sanctae Teresae." Peter's violins again showed considerable See also:variations from those of the other Guarnieri. See also:Hart, in his See also:work on the violin, says, " There is increased breadth between the See also:sound-holes; the sound-hole is rounder and more perpendicular; the See also:middle bouts are more contracted, and the model is more raised." The greatest of all the Guarnieri, however, was a See also:nephew of Andreas, Joseph del Gesu (1687–1745), whose See also:title originates in the I.H.S. inscribed on his tickets. His See also:master was Gaspar di Salo. His conception follows that of the See also:early Brescian makers in the boldness of outline and the massive construction which aim at the See also:production of See also:tone rather than visual perfection of See also:form. The See also:great variety of his work in See also:size, model, &c., represents his various experiments in the direction of discovering this tone.

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sap-See also:mark, parallel with the See also:finger-See also:board on both sides, appears on the bellies of most of his instruments. Since the middle of the 18th See also:century a great, many See also:spurious instruments ascribed to this master have poured over See also:Europe. It was not until See also:Paganini played on a " Joseph " that the See also:taste of amateurs turned from the sweetness of the Amati and the Stradivarius violins in favour of the robuster tone of the Joseph Guarnerius. See VIOLIN.

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