Gasparo Duiffopruggar
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Gasparo Duiffopruggar (1514 - c.1570) (First name alternately spelled "Gaspard," last name alternately spelled "Dieffopruchar," or "Duiffoprugcar," "Duiffoprugghar" or "Duiffoprogar") is the name given to instrument maker Kaspar Tieffenbrucker. It is believed that Duiffopruggar was born in Bavaria and had moved to Lyon, where he did most of his work, by 1553. He was one of the first to produce the violin in its basically modern form. Actual Duiffopruggar instruments are rare, but reproductions of his instruments, most notably by Parisian violin-maker Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, abound. These instruments can be distinguished from the originals, however, by discrepancies in the labels of the violin.
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- Farga, Franz, Violins & Violinists. Trans. Egon Larson with Bruno Raikin. New York: Frederick A. Prager, 1969.
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