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British Violin Makers, 1920
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1TUBBS, WILLIAM, London: c. 1814-1878. Father of the preceding. He made many bows, principally for the dealers, and his work was said to be very good. He was a son of Thomas Tubbs, also a bow maker. There were, and there are to-day, several other members of the Tubbs family connected with the bow-making branch of the craft, but I know nothing of them or their work.
3TURNER, WILLIAM, London: c. 1650. A maker of viols.
5TUSON, ROBERT, Gravestown: contemporary.
7TWEEDALE, 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
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