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

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.”

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.