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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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1name in Roman characters on the bare wood of the back outside under the button.
3SHAW, JOHN, London: c. 1650.
5SHAW, J., Manchester, contemporary.
7SHAW, THOMAS, Cove, contemporary. An amateur of good average ability.
9SHEPHERD, H. G., Brighton, contemporary.
11SHEPLEY, GEORGE, Bristol: nineteenth century.
13SHERDON, DANIEL, Gloucester: nineteenth century. Indifferent.
15SHROSBREE, HENRY JAMES, Adelaide, S. Australia, contemporary. In the opinion of Australian experts, this maker produces work which is of quite an exceptional character. I am not in a position to either endorse or dispute that claim, and I therefore reproduce here an article written in the April number of Music (an Adelaide monthly), 1897, giving an account of the life and work of this maker:—
17"Mr. H. J. Shrosbree, of Adelaide, known as a maker and repairer of violins of exceptional ability, was born in London in December 1858. From 1872 till the end of 1880 he followed a seafaring life, voyaging to Adelaide for the second time in the latter year, when he entered the service of Sir E. T. Smith, and remained with him till his retirement from business. Mr. Shrosbree does not claim to belong to a family of violin-makers, as his father was a taxidermist, in whose art the subject of this notice also duly qualified. On leaving Sir Edwin Smith's employ, Mr. Shrosbree entered that of Mr. Lawrence, the well-known Adelaide taxidermist, who says of him that he understands all branches of this work. Ample proof of this was seen in 1891, when he was awarded first prize and certificate of merit for a very fine exhibit at the Adelaide Exhibition of Art and Industry. But the violin,

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