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British Violin Makers, 1920
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1TOLMIE, G., Hanwell: contemporary. A gentleman amateur who has made a few violins of excellent workmanship and tone. One of his instruments which I tried about a year ago had a beautiful tone.
3TORRING, J., London: 1800-10. He repaired chiefly.
5TRIMNELL, JOSEPH HENRY, Birmingham: 1840-1904. Average ability.
7TRINGHAM, HENRY, Shrewsbury: 1835-1860. Model and workmanship very fair, but tone hard and metallic.
9TROTMAN, WILLIAM, Hereford: c. 1850. Small Amati model.
11TRUEMAN, RICHARD, Bath: 1820-30. A pretty little instrument of his make on the A. and H. Amati model, which I saw a few years ago, had a sweet tone.
13TUBBS, JAMES & SON, London: contemporary. James Tubbs is a son of William Tubbs, a bow maker, and was born in Rupert Court, March 25, 1835. His name has been a "household" word among artists and bow collectors for a generation or more, and Tubbs has long won for himself the title of "the Modern British Tourte." He is a pupil of his father, with whom he remained working till about 1860, in which year he commenced business on his own account in Church Street, Soho, where he remained till 1864. From Church Street he removed to High Street, Marylebone, and from there to King Street, Soho, where he worked for a few years. In 1872 he removed to his present address, 94 Wardour Street, and here he has "laboured and toiled" for upwards of forty years, producing those gems of the bow maker's art for which the name of Tubbs has so long been famous. He is in his eighty-fifth year, but still hale and hearty in spite of his great age, and in the full possession of all his faculties. He was busy at work on a violin bow when
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