The new international encyclopaedia . ^ 6 S. VIOLIN. 153 VIOLIN. Aniati and began his art in Cieinona, but laterremoved to Brescia. (2) TiiK School of Crkmona. Tlie mastersof tliis scliuol have produced the finest instru-ments known. While Da Sah> was niakinj; vio-lins in Brescia, Andrea Aniati {) inde-pendently set up a shop in Cn-niona, and tiius be-came the founder of Italys most famous instruments are very graceful, with a sweetbut not powerful tone. Andreas sons, Antonioand Geronimo, worked togetlier from 1575 to1C25. They adopted their fathers gracefulmodel, but in


The new international encyclopaedia . ^ 6 S. VIOLIN. 153 VIOLIN. Aniati and began his art in Cieinona, but laterremoved to Brescia. (2) TiiK School of Crkmona. Tlie mastersof tliis scliuol have produced the finest instru-ments known. While Da Sah> was niakinj; vio-lins in Brescia, Andrea Aniati {) inde-pendently set up a shop in Cn-niona, and tiius be-came the founder of Italys most famous instruments are very graceful, with a sweetbut not powerful tone. Andreas sons, Antonioand Geronimo, worked togetlier from 1575 to1C25. They adopted their fathers gracefulmodel, but ini])roved the playing (jualities, so thattheir instruments are very sonorous. Oeronimosmm Niceolu ( 15!IU-l(i8-l) is (he most famous rep-resentative of the Aniati family. Ip to aboutI(i50 NiecolO used the model of his father anduncle. But then he gradually introduced thos(^changes which finally led to the model known astlie (irand Amali. wliose body is fourteen incheslong and strengthened througlunit. Niecolo ex-erted a most powerful and las


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