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John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
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1In Hyacinth Abele's book—"The Violin and its Story," written in the sixties of last century, and translated by Geoffrey Alwyn, 1905, we find the following—"There is in England no special stringed instrument manufacturer. Most of the instruments sold in England are brought over from Mittenwald, from Mirecourt, and from Markneukirchen. They are often very carefully finished in England, fitted with new necks, varnished, and then sold at an augmented price." Whilst admitting there were many good repairers in England, the author states "that London may be regarded as the best market in the world for old and valuable violins," p. 65. In "Old Violins," by the Rev. H. R. Haweis, 1910, we find it stated that Mirecourt in Lorraine, was associated from so early a date as 1566, with Cremona, and that there was a worshipful Guild of Violin-makers of Markneukirchen dating from 1677, and that Mittenwald shared, with the above two places, "the honour of supplying that rapidly growing violin market which was now springing up, and whilst Cremona made largely for home consumption and a few foreign courts, Mirecourt undertook the more modest but
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