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John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
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1equally useful duty of multiplying Cremona school violins, which circulated far and wide throughout the provinces, and frequently reached our own shores; indeed fiddles often passed for Cremonas,"—p. 187.
3The English fiddle-maker, nevertheless came, Mr. Hart mentions Jacob Rayman, London, who was at Blackman Street, Southwark, in 1641, and at the "Bell" in Southwark, in 1648, and is of opinion that this Rayman, who was probably a German from the Tyrol who settled in England about the year 1620, may be considered as the founder of violin-making in this country, there being no trace of any other British makers at this time. In Thomas Britton's collection of instruments there were labels inscribed—"Jacob Rayman, dwelling in Blackman Street, Long Southwark, 1641, and "Jacob Rayman at the 'Ye Bell' yard in Southwark, London, 1648." These are the dates mentioned above. Amongst other early English violin-makers we find Christopher Wise, London, flourished about 1650, who made viols and violins, label—"Christopher Wise, in Half Moon Alley, without Bishopsgate, London, 1656." Wise is called a transition maker—
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