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John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker
Egglestone, William Morley. Stanhope: Egglestone, 1914.
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| 11 | PREFACE. | Read | |
| 13 | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. | Read | |
| 14 | CONTENTS. | Read | |
| 18 | following inscription—"Beneath is the bu… | Read | |
| 38 | 20 | range on Stanhope Common. The first priz… | Read |
| 39 | 21 | Chapter III. | Read |
| 40 | 22 | years and keen on making of violins, and… | Read |
| 41 | 23 | smart performers Benson and Roddam on th… | Read |
| 42 | 24 | wood he used for his fiddles. It is said… | Read |
| 43 | 25 | wood standing in a corner told his visit… | Read |
| 44 | 26 | Castle at Mauchline, said to be the hous… | Read |
| 45 | 27 | cut and seasoned during a lesser, but st… | Read |
| 46 | 28 | see, mistress, ye have a fine fiddle her… | Read |
| 47 | 29 | with the gouge, neither sand paper nor t… | Read |
| 48 | 30 | is not sufficiently known or recognised… | Read |
| 49 | 31 | appears to have been varnished with Whit… | Read |
| 50 | 32 | (1885) with which he won first prize for… | Read |
| 51 | 33 | As to the light touch of the Stanhope ge… | Read |
| 52 | 34 | run over the strings as if some idea had… | Read |
| 53 | 35 | away with mirth and with song, with tabr… | Read |
| 54 | 36 | perfection an instrument of everlasting… | Read |
| 70 | 52 | the following:– | Read |
| 71 | 53 | John Askew—Violin Maker. | Read |
| 72 | 54 | Bishop Auckland. Evidently the maker had… | Read |
| 76 | 58 | Benson, is also said to have got pine wo… | Read |
| 94 | 70 | a diploma and medal at the great Interna… | Read |
| 100 | 74 | Askew's Violins. | Read |
| 113 | 83 | Mr. Askew, with the inside ticket, "John… | Read |
| 114 | 84 | "Do you think the violin you are making… | Read |
| 115 | 85 | John Askew—Violin Maker. | Read |
| 116 | 86 | by George Duncan, Glasgow," with the yea… | Read |
| 117 | 87 | personally made and varnished up to the… | Read |
| 118 | 88 | <table> | Read |
| 119 | 89 | John Askew—Violin Maker. | Read |
| 120 | 90 | had made 733 instruments. On the backs o… | Read |
| 128 | 98 | had now to perform on inferior instrumen… | Read |
| 129 | 99 | John Askew—Violin Maker. | Read |
| 130 | 100 | Newcastle-on-Tyne, | Read |
| 131 | 101 | John Askew—Violin Maker. | Read |
| 132 | 102 | LAST DAYS. | Read |
| 133 | 103 | His eyes were full of excitement and won… | Read |
| 134 | 104 | His wife afterwards told me that the hou… | Read |
| 135 | 105 | to King Edward III., in 1370, at 7½d. a… | Read |
| 136 | 106 | In Hyacinth Abele's book—"The Violin and… | Read |
| 137 | 107 | equally useful duty of multiplying Cremo… | Read |
| 143 | 113 | A few years later we find in Pepy's diar… | Read |
| 144 | 114 | of books, and in every way a gentleman a… | Read |
| 145 | 115 | Chapter XI. | Read |
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