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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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1one William Bevan, whose youngest daughter, Martha, Mr. Whiteside married at Whitchurch, September 16, 1780.
3"On the 5th day of July, 1824, at the advanced age of 78, and after a long illness, Mr. Whiteside died at his residence—the Harbour House—in Lower Solva. He was buried at Whitchurch, where the remains of his wife were also deposited in 1832. Two plain tombstones are erected to their memories."
5I have seen only one of his violins, which was a beautifully made copy of the grand Strad model, with somewhat Stainer-like sound-holes. The varnish was an oil one, of dark nut-brown colour, and of excellent quality. The tone was mellow and moderately powerful. It is said that well-nigh every farmhouse in the Solva neighbourhood at one time possessed a Whiteside fiddle or harpsichord, but they are gone the way of all things perishable.
7WHITMARSH, EMMANUEL, London, contemporary. I cannot give any biographical particulars, but I have seen a great deal of his work. Nor am I certain that the present Emmanuel Whitmarsh is the same that turned out excellent instruments some twenty-five or thirty years ago. The work does not seem to me to have the same characteristics. The present maker of that name makes principally for the wholesale houses. The Messrs. Dawkins, of 17 Charterhouse Street, Holborn Circus, have been his agents for some years past. The work is very carefully finished, and the tone usually clear, firm, and sweet.
9WHITTAKER, BUTTON &., Leeds: 1805-30.
11WIGAN, DAVID, Shrewsbury, contemporary. Average work.
13WIGHTMAN, GEORGE, London: c. 1760.
15WILKS, ALFRED, Manchester, contemporary. An amateur.
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