Pietro Zanura
ZANURA, Pietro 16th century Brescia Italy. Viol exhibited in the South Kensington exhibition 1872: four strings and one circular sound-hole, with label, below. Unverified: no other evidence of this maker presently known. Petrus Zanura Brixiae — John Dilworth
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John Dilworth+
ZANURA, Pietro 16th century Brescia Italy. Viol exhibited in the South Kensington exhibition 1872: four strings and one circular sound-hole, with label, below. Unverified: no other evidence of this maker presently known. Petrus Zanura Brixiae
Cecie Stainer+
A maker of viols in Brescia about 1509. One of his instruments was exhibited at the South Kensington Museum, 1872 ; it had one round sound-hole, placed in the centre with four strings, and was labelled ” Pietro Zanure, Brescia, 1509.” Few of his instruments are known ; label are generally : ” Petrus Zanure Brixiae.”
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Eine Viola mit rundem Schallloch, nicht viel breiter als eine Pochette, die den Übergang vom Rebec zur Geige illustrirt, mit Zanure’s Namen besitzt George H. M. Muntz in Birmingham; sie war 1872 unter No. 106 im Kensington- Museum in London ausgestellt.
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