Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Scan 6

Georg Gemünder's Progress In Violin Making 1881, 1881

30 lines. Read by computer on 19 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

A town on its own line is one of the directory's headings. That is where the town on a maker's page comes from.

1A TREATISE
2ON THE
3STRUCTURE AND PRESERVATION
4OF THE
5VIOLIN
6AND ALL OTHER BOW-INSTRUMENTS;
7TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF
8THE MOST CELEBRATED MAKERS,
9AND OF THE GENUINE CHARACTERISTICS OF THEIR INSTRUMENTS;
10BY
11JACOB AUGUSTUS OTTO,
12INSTRUMENT MAKER TO THE COURT OF THE GRAND DUKE OF WEIMAR.
14TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL, WITH ADDITIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
15BY
16JOHN BISHOP,
17OF CHELTENHAM.
19FOURTH EDITION: FURTHER ENLARGED
21LONDON:
22ROBERT COCKS & CO., NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
23MUSIC PUBLISHERS, BY APPOINTMENT, TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY
24QUEEN VICTORIA, AND HIS LATE IMPERIAL MAJESTY NAPOLEON III.
25SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO. WHITTAKER AND CO.
27MDCCCLXXV.
29Price Four Shillings.

The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.