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Chats to violin students on how to study the violin, 1895
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1CHAPTER VIII.
3Violin Makers—The French School.
5NOW turning to French makers I find they started early in the seventeenth century. Of the early French makers there is very little information to be obtained beyond the somewhat unsatisfactory intelligence that their instruments were mostly poor in tone. Their varnish seems to have somewhat resembled that of the Venetian school. They copied the Cremonese artists and followed this model almost undeviatingly up to the present time. The inartistic and unfinished work generally of the early French school is amply made up for by the later makers who stand almost on a par with the great Italian masters. In searching for early records of French makers I think I can safely place the name of Tywersus, who lived in the sixteenth century, as the first. He worked at Mirecourt, the cradle of so much of the good early work, but I can find no further record of him. The first name of importance belonging to the French school is Ambroise de Comble, who was born in Tournay about 1730. He is said to have studied with Stradivarius and the quality and colour of the varnish and general character of his work
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