Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Banks

Salisbury · b. 1727

Historical maker

Named in 3 books.

What the books printed

Violins and violin makers. Biographical dictionary of the great Italian artistes, their followers and imitators, to the present time. With essays on important subjects connected with the violin, Pearce, Joseph. London: Longman and co.; Sheffield, J. Pearce, jun., 1866. Page 20, scan 28.
BANKS, JAMES and HENRY, Salisbury, other sons of the same. James is said to have been an excellent workman in his father's style, and dates about 1805.
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Biographical dictionary of musicians, Brown, James Duff. Paisley, London: A. Gardner, 1886. Page 48, scan 58. Held as more than one scan.
BANKS (Benjamin). English violin-maker, B. Salisbury, July 14, 1727. Worked chiefly at Salisbury. D. Salisbury, Feb. 18, 1795.
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Old violins, Haweis, H. R. (Hugh Reginald). Edinburgh, Grant, 1905. Page 241, scan 265.
BANKS, James and Henry, fourth and sixth sons of B. Banks (1727-95). (See pp. 130-132.)
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  • Entries from 3 books stand under this name, and somebody judged them different people. That is being looked at again.

Same name

Whether any of these is the same person, the books do not say.

Same town, same time

2 other Salisbury makers have a year in the 1700s.

All Salisbury makers