associated with the family name, with a view to their following in the
footsteps of their father Antonio.

GUARNERI, Andrea, Cremona, born about 1626, died 1698.

Andreas Guarnerius fecit Cremonae
sub titulo Sanctae Teresiae 16--

The name of "Guarnerius" is probably known to every possessor of a
Violin throughout the world. The familiar style is attached to scores
of copies and non-copies every week, and despatched to the four
quarters of the globe. Little did Andrea imagine that he was destined
to be the means of lifting his patronymic of Guarneri to such a giddy
height!

Andrea Guarneri, like Andrea Amati, was the pioneer of the family: but
for his influence we might never have had the extraordinary works of
his nephew, Giuseppe. How full of interest would the smallest events
of Andrea's workshop life prove if we could only ascertain them! We
know that in early years he was working in the shop of Niccolo Amati.
With what delight would any record, or even anecdote, of those golden
days in the history of the Violin be received by the lovers of the
instrument! The bare idea that these men were living in daily close
converse is sufficient to awaken interest of a lively nature in the
mind of a lover of Fiddles. Unhappily, however, no Boswell was at hand
to dot down events, of small value when passing, but of great
consequence to after-time. The want of that direct biographical
information which is handed down to us from recorded personal
knowledge leads to the opening of many a mouldy, worm-eaten, and
half-forgotten parish register, wherein we read, in language stiff and
statutory, accounts of departed parishioners having duly performed and
executed divers acts and deeds. These entries often shed much
unexpected light on subjects previously dark or obscured. The pages of
the Cremonese parish register, to which allusion has been made in the
notices of the members of the Amati family, have served this purpose
in some measure. From the same source we have a few interesting facts
concerning Andrea Guarneri. It appears that Niccolo Amati entered, in
the year 1641, the age of his pupil Andrea Guarneri in the parish
rate-book as being fifteen years, thus supplying the hitherto unknown
date of his birth. Again we learn that Andrea Guarneri does not appear
to have been with Niccolo Amati in 1646, but was so in the year 1653,
the register showing that he was at that date married. There is no
further reference to his