John Dilworth
GALBUSERA, Carlo Antonio Worked circa. 1830-1836 Milan Italy. Officer in the Italian Army as well as violin maker. Violins in guitar form and guitars. Gold medal at Milan 1832.
George Hart
Thismaker appears to have attracted attention in Italy. In a little volume entitled ” L’Italic economique,” 1847, he is mentioned as a maker who rivals Vuillaume. I am not acquainted with his instruments. Mention is made of his having made Violins without corners, and that he applied to the wood a preparation for the purpose of extracting the resinous particles from it. The adoption of such means of forcing on maturity makes it unlikely that he made instruments worthy of notice.
Cecie Stainer
At first an officer in the Italian army, then settled in Milan, and began to construct instruments on the principles of François Chanot. In 1832 he was awarded a silver medal by the Milan Academy of Sciences for a violin very similar to that of Chanot; it was a sort of violin-guitar, with the stringing, sound-holes, scroll, and borders of an ordinary violin; but recalled a guitar in having no corners and in the lessened curve of its outline. Although completely ignored now, it was considered such a great success at the time that the Leipzig paper, the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung (Dec. 23, 1832), concluded a laudatory article by saying “It is indeed surprising that it should have taken centuries to give the violin this more simple form.”
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff
Er war Kriegscommissar in Mailand und wollte die Form der Geige, ähnlich
wie Chanot, dadurch verbessern, dass er, was ältere Meister, z. B. Guarneri u. A.,
auch schon gethan, die Ecken wegliess und ihr eine der Guitarre sich nähernde
Form gab. Da seine Geigen trotzdem gut klangen, erhielt er von der Mailänder
Akademie der Wissenschaften 1832 sogar eine silberne Medaille. Die Prophezeiungen
seiner Verehrer (vgl. Allg. Musikzeitung, Leipzig, 23. Dec. 1832),
dass er der Geige für das ganze Jahrhundert eine neue Form gegeben haben
dürfte, haben sich nicht erfüllt. Besser haben sich seine Guitarren erhalten.
