ACEVO, --- Cremona, Pupil of Guiseppe Cappa. This artiste made very
good violins in the style of the Amati.
ADDISON, WILLIAM, London, 1670.
AIRETON, EDMUND, London, 1730. A good and neat Maker.
ALDRED, --- London, Early English Lute Maker.
ALETZIE, PAULO, Monaco, 1720-30. Famous for his Violoncellos.
ALBANI, MATTHIAS, born at Botzen or Bulsani, in the Tyrol, about 1621.
This artist was highly esteemed formerly, and Otto says that it is
exceedingly difficult to give so exact a description of them as readily
to distinguish them from those of Nicholas Amati, who was said to be
his master. In the present day, opinions are very different.
Nevertheless there are some fine instruments by this maker, of high
model, with reddish brown varnish and bearing a great similarity to
those of Steiner, of whom he was also said to be a pupil. The
"Dictionary of Musicians" speaks highly of this maker. This was
decidedly the best artiste of this name.
ALBANI, PAOLO, Palermo and Cremona, was also under Nicholas Amati,
about 1659.
ALBANI, --- son of the above, about 1712, was also a careful maker,
and turned out some good Instruments.