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John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
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1wood standing in a corner told his visitor that the back of his fiddle was cut from that block. This wood came from Newlandside estate on the south side of the river Wear opposite Stanhope. When he made the bronze medal violin in 1883 the maker told its present owner, Miss Hildyard, that the wood cost five pounds, and was probably got from London. If the violin made in the year following was made of the same wood the writer must say that it is charmingly beautiful. In 1893 our fiddle maker had an order from Mr. Towry Piper to make him a copy of a "Long Strad" the buyer provided the "Strad" to copy from and the wood, and being an expert the wood would be of the right kind, and he also provided our maker with a set of proper violin making tools. The Long Strad turned out well and will be referred to later.
3In respect to wood used by the Craft Mr. Morris tells us in his "British Violin Makers" that John Macintosh of Galston, N.B., who made several violins and decorated them on the back with portraits and landscapes says—"One of these is made throughout of oak which was taken from the roof of the old
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