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British Violin Makers, 1920
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1Facsimile label:—
3Jeffery J. Gilbert. Peterborough
4Fecit. Anno MDCCXCIX.
6GILCHRIST, JAMES, Glasgow: 1832–94. An amateur maker who was by trade a philosophical instrument maker. He made eighty-six instruments of every description, of very good workmanship and very fair tone.
8GILKES, SAMUEL, London: 1787–1827. He was a native of Morton Pinkney, Northamptonshire. His work is greatly appreciated by the best judges. There is not a great deal of it, but what there is justifies the opinion that if Gilkes had lived a few years longer he would be accounted to-day one of England's greatest violin makers. He died a comparatively young man, just as he was beginning to give the world the fruit of ripened talent. The Amati and Stradivari copies he made from about 1820 to the time of his death are excellent in every way. He was a pupil of Charles Harris, to whom he was also related, and he worked for a few years with William Forster. Label:—
10GILKES,
11FROM FORSTER'S,
12VIOLIN AND VIOLONCELLO MAKER,
1334 JAMES STERET, BUCKINGHAM GATE,
14WESTMINSTER.
16GILKES, WILLIAM, London: 1811–75. He was a pupil of his father, whom he succeeded in business. He made many double-basses and other instruments, which are of about average merit.
18GIRVAN, THOMAS, Edinburgh: nineteenth century.
19Average work.
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