Gasparo Assalone

John Dilworth

ASSALONE, Gasparo Worked circa. 1695-1740 Pesaro & Rome Italy. The name is possibly a corruption of ‘Gasparo da Salò’ and is highly dubious. Henley (as is often the case) gives the impression that there are several instruments extant of differing types: ‘Amatise-Klotz’ and ‘Brescian’ styles, but there is no other confirmation of this. Strocchi claims there is a treatise on instrument making written by this man, which would be the earliest account of the craft if it exists. It is not recorded in any other source. Boalch lists a clavichord bearing the label ‘Gaspare Assalone fecit Romae Anno MCDDXXXII’ which unfortunately is a nonsensical date, possibly intended to be 1632 or 1732, and considered a 19th century fake by Franciolini. [Henley]

George Hart

The model is high and the workmanship rough. Thin yellow varnish.

Cecie Stainer

A maker in Rome, 1740. His instruments are made on the Amati pattern, but are too much arched ; the varnish is yellow, of poor quality.

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

Arbeitete, wie behauptet wird, um 1690 und soll noch um 1740 gelebt haben.
Man sagt, dass er im Umriss das Amati-Modell nachahmte, jedoch die Wölbung
zu hoch nahm und unsauber arbeitete. Wahrscheinlich ist dieser Gasparo d’
Assalone aus dem Namen Gasparo da Salò’s entstanden. Die Zettel mit seinem
Namen dürften daher Fälschungen sein.

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John Dilworth

George Hart

Cecie Stainer

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

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