Salo, Gasparo di

SALO, Gasparo di, a celebrated violin-maker of Brescia, probably born at Salo, a small town on the lake of Garda. The date of his birth is unknown, but he is supposed to have worked during the latter years of the 16th and earlier years of the 17th century. Gasparo di Salo was one of the earliest makers of stringed instruments who employed the pattern of the violin as distinguished from that of the viol. His works are of a primitive pattern,...