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Tuson, Robert

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  1. British Violin Makers (1920)

    TUSON, ROBERT, Gravestown: contemporary.

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    2. TURNER, WILLIAM, London: c. 1650. A maker of viols.
    4. TUSON, ROBERT, Gravestown: contemporary.
    6. TWEEDALE, CHARLES L., Weston, Otley, Yorks: contemporary. He is the vicar of Weston, but since he advertises his violins for sale he is treated here as a quasi-professional maker, and not as a mere amateur. He was born at Stainland, near Halifax, and is a son of Dr. Thomas Tweedale, surgeon, and of Mary, daughter of Charles Oates, an engineer, of Cranshawborth, Rossendale. Both his grandsires were amateur violin makers, and one of them, Mr. Benjamin Tweedale, made several violins of excellent workmanship and tone, and was an enthusiastic devotee of the violin and the leader of all the oratorios and concerts in his neighbourhood. Mr. Tweedale has been interested from his youth in the arts, crafts, and sciences, and it was his father's intention to make an engineer of him. Mr. Tweedale senior died in 1885, and young Tweedale turned his energies into another channel. At that time he became deeply interested in astronomy, and he ground and polished the specula for his own reflecting telescopes up to ten inches in diameter. With these instruments he did a good deal of work, and independently discovered the triple tailed comet of 1886 (comet f). Just about this period one of Benjamin Tweedale's violins came into his possession, and he taught himself to play upon it. He soon became more interested in its construction than in playing, and he procured Heron-Allen's book, and under the charm of that work commenced to make a fiddle, and he did not rest

  2. British violin-makers classical and modern; being a biographical and critical dictionary of British makers of the violin from the foundation of the classical school to the end of the nineteenth century (1904)

    TUSON, ROBERT, Gravestown, contemporary

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    2. TURNER, WILLIAM, London: c. 1650. A viol-maker.
    4. TUSON, ROBERT, Gravestown, contemporary
    6. TWEEDY, J., Acklington, contemporary.

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One or more sources name this maker, and this record states only that: British Violin Makers (1920); British Violin Makers: A Biographical Dictionary of British Makers of Stringed Instruments and Bows and a Critical Description of Their Work (1920); British violin-makers classical and modern; being a biographical and critical dictionary of British makers of the violin from the foundation of the classical school to the end of the nineteenth century (1904). Entries from 2 books stand under this name, and the software judged them likely the same person. Tell us if that is wrong and we will split the record. Beyond what is printed there, nothing on this site confirms this record and no claim has been invented — not established, and we want to hear from you if you can change it.

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Places and dates of work
TUSON, ROBERT, Gravestown: contemporary. reported1
Places and dates of work
TUSON, ROBERT, Gravestown: contemporary. reported1
Places and dates of work
TUSON, ROBERT, Gravestown, contemporary reported1

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  1. W. Meredith Morris, British Violin Makers (London: Robert Scott, 1920). archive.org, bwb_W9-CSA-426. https://archive.org/details/bwb_W9-CSA-426.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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  2. W. Meredith Morris, British Violin Makers: A Biographical Dictionary of British Makers of Stringed Instruments and Bows and a Critical Description of Their Work (R. Scott, 1920). archive.org, britishviolinmak0000wmer. https://archive.org/details/britishviolinmak0000wmer.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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  3. Morris, W. Meredith (William Meredith), 1867-1921, British violin-makers classical and modern; being a biographical and critical dictionary of British makers of the violin from the foundation of the classical school to the end of the nineteenth century (London, Chatto & Windus, 1904). archive.org, britishviolinmak00morrrich. https://archive.org/details/britishviolinmak00morrrich.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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