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British violin-makers classical and modern; being a biographical and critical dictionary of British makers of the violin from the foundation of the classical school to the end of the nineteenth century, 1904
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1him and Vuillaume, and I prefer to leave these, however idyllic their character, severely alone.
3The few instruments attributed to Mann which I have had the fortune to see were not calculated to rouse the connoisseur into ecstatic utterance. They were beautifully made, but timid and tame. They reminded one of Sir Joshua Reynolds' criticism of a picture. The great painter was standing before a painting by another celebrated artist one day, and on being asked his opinion of the work, replied: "It wants—it wants—d——n me! it wants that." Nothing aggravates the connoisseur like frigid monotony. No genius in the poetical world ever reached the summit of Parnassus by a path previously made, and no two great violin-makers ever walk exactly the same road.
5MARNIE, JOHN, Padanaram: nineteenth century. Indifferent.
7MARSHALL, JOHN, Aberdeen, contemporary. An excellent workman, who is famous throughout Scotland as a neat repairer. He has made a large number of instruments, mostly on the Stradivari model. Label:—
9JOHN MARSHALL,
10VIOLIN-MAKER,
11ABERDEEN, 1887,
12J. M.
14MARSHALL, JOHN, London: 1750-60. Fairly good work on the Stainer model, with sometimes exaggerated archings. He varied his labels.
16MARTIN, ——, London. Little or nothing is known of him.
18MAYSON, WALTER H., Manchester, contemporary. He was born at Cheetwood, Manchester, on Nov. 8, 1835. He is a son of Mark Mayson, who was born at Keswick, and of Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the celebrated William Green,
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