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British Violin Makers: A Biographical Dictionary of British Makers of Stringed Instruments and Bows and a Critical Description of Their Work, 1920
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1ANDERSON, JOHN, Glasgow. He is the son of the preceding John Anderson, and was born at Aberdeen, in 1856. He has made a number of violins on a modified Strad model, and he also makes very good varnish.
3ANYON, THOMAS, Manchester. An amateur who makes very beautiful instruments, and for which he is said to obtain prices ranging from thirty to fifty guineas!
5ARNOT, DAVID. Born at Crieff, and worked in Glasgow, where he died in 1897. He made a large number of instruments on various models. He had a shop in Stockwell Street, Glasgow, where he carried on extensive repairing business. Handwritten label.
7ASKEW, JOHN, Stanhope. Born in 1834, died in 1895. A very clever maker, who, if circumstances had but allowed, would doubtless have produced a large number of instruments of exceptional merit. Mr. Towry Piper had a high opinion of his abilities. In a monograph recently published by Mr. W. Morley Egglestone, entitled: John Askew the Stanhope Violin Maker, a full description is given of all the violins by Askew which are known. I have seen only one instrument by this maker; it was the violin "christened" the Van Gelderen, fecit in 1884, and was on the Strad model, with golden amber varnish of a slightly reddish tint, very transparent and lustrous. The workmanship showed the master hand of a born fiddle maker, and the tone was full, responsive, and mellow. He was awarded a bronze medal at the Inventions Exhibition, 1885, and the first prize at the Jubilee Exhibition, Newcastle-on-Tyne, in 1887.
9ASKEY, SAMUEL. He worked in London about 1800-40. Originally a tinman, he became a pupil of John Morrison, and worked for some time for George Corsby. The work varies in character, but the tone is usually weak and harsh. No label of his is known.
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