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

Merlin, Joseph

London · about 1780

Historical maker

Named in 1 book.

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 59, scan 67.
MERLIN, JOSEPH, London, about 1780. A very ingenious person, who obtained the honour of being mentioned in Madame D'Arblay's "Diary and Letters." His violins were after the Steiner pattern, and well made, but did not approach the Steiner tone.
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Same name

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

Same town, same time

162 other London makers have a year in the 1700s. A few of them:

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