Panormo, Vincenzo

Dates Active in Dublin: 

c. 1800

Business Type: 
Musical instrument maker: guitar
Musical instrument maker: violin
Address(es): 

Trinity Street

Details: 

Father of Francis Panormo.

Vincenzo Panormo was born in Sicily in 1734 and worked mainly in Paris, and, later in London where he died in 1813.

One of the leading violin makers of his age, he 'worked at Dublin for a year or so where he built several instruments of wood for [which] the backs and ribs [were] cut from an old maple billiard table (Henley). The exact dates of his period in Dublin are not recorded.

Teahan also reports that he worked in Cork.

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Produced

  • Bass viol: National Museum of Ireland [produced by Nicholas Murphy, assisted by Panormo] (Gogan)
    • See Also: 

    Panormo, Francis

    Source(s): 

    Gogan, L.S., 'Musical Instrument Collections in the National Museum of Ireland', in Music in Ireland: a Symposium, ed. by Aloys Fleischmann (Cork: Cork University Press, 1952), pp. 299–307 (p. 303)

    Teahan, John, 'A List of Irish Instrument Makers', The Galpin Society Journal, 16 (May 1963), 28–32 (p. 31)

    Henley, William and Cyril Woodcock, Universal Dictionary of Violin & Bow Makers: Price Guide and Appendix, VII (Brighton: Amati Publishing, 1969), p. 78

    Woodcock, C., Universal Dictionary of Violin & Bow Makers: Price Guide Supplement 1971–72 (Brighton: Amati Publishing, 1972), p. x

    Henley, William, Universal Dictionary of Violins and Bow Makers (Brighton: Amati, 1973), pp. 862–63

    Woodcock, C., Universal Dictionary of Violin & Bow Makers: Price Guide Supplement 1973–74 (Brighton: Amati Publishing, 1974), p. xii

    Woodcock, C., Universal Dictionary of Violin & Bow Makers: Price Guide Supplement 1975–76 (Brighton: Amati Publishing, 1976), p. xxii

    Beare, Charles, 'Panormo, Vincenzo', in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, ed. by Stanley Sadie, 3 vols (London: Macmillan Press Limited, 1984), III, pp. 11–12

    Lawrence, Thomas, ‘The History of the Guitar in Ireland 1760-1866’, 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, University College Dublin, 1999), I, p. 29

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Panormo, Vincenzo’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 03-03-2017