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Old violins, 1905

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1HENRY. Paris.
2HENRY, Carolus, son of Jean Baptiste Henry, 1803-59; prolific maker; inventor of a barytone fiddle (not a success); a good maker otherwise.
3HENRY, Eugène, son of Charles Henry, 1843-92; an excellent maker of fine repairs; business continued by Charles Bruyère.
4HENRY, Jean Baptiste, b. 1757-1831, Mataincourt, Mirecourt (Vosges). He was the head of the present family of makers.
5HENRY, Jean Baptiste Félix, eldest son of Jean Baptiste Henry. 1793-1858. Paris. Pupil of his father; in Bordeaux, 1822; in Marseilles, 1825. In 1844 he returned to Paris. A prolific maker, but never signed.
6HENRY, Octave, son of Jean Baptiste Félix Henry. 1826-54. Paris. In Grenoble in 1854; made a great many violins.
7HENRY. A violin bow-maker; 1812 at Mirecourt; 1870, Paris; worked with Chanot; made excellent bows.
8HILDEBRANDT, Michael Christopher. Hamburg, 1765-1800; good work; fine repairer.
9HILL, Henry Lockey, son of Lockey Hill; grandson of Joseph Hill; b. 1774; d. Aug. 1835. (For Hill family see p. 133).
10HILL, John. Red Lion Street, Holborn, 1794.
11HILL, Joseph, b. 1715; d. 1784. He was a fellow-apprentice of Banks, working at "Ye Harp and Hautboy," in Piccadilly, London, under Peter Wamsley, about 1740-42. Worked till 1772. His sons, William, Joseph, Lockey, and Benjamin, were all makers.
12HILL, William, son of Joseph Hill. Worked in London about 1740-80.
13HILL, William Ebsworth, son of Henry Lockey Hill, 1817-95. The present members of the firm are his four eldest sons: William Henry, b. June 3, 1857, followed the musical profession for some years before joining his brothers in the business; Arthur Frederick, b. Jan. 25, 1860; Alfred Ebsworth, b. Feb. 1862, who worked for some time at Mirecourt (Vosges), and was the first Englishman to go there to study; and Walter Edgar, b. Nov. 4, 1871, who also worked at Mirecourt. They employ a large staff of assistants in their workshops at Hanwell. (See p. 133.)
14HIRCUTT. London about 1600.
15HOCHBRÜCKER. Donauworth, Bavaria, 1699. Later at Augsburg. Made some violins, but is chiefly known as the inventor of pedals for the harp, about 1720.
16HÖHNE. Dresden and Weimar.
17HÖRLEIN, Carl Adam, b. 1829-75. Winkelhof, Würzburg; great reputation both as maker and repairer.
18HOFMANN, Anton. Courtmaker in Vienna, 1850.
19HOFMANN, Martin. Leipzig, 1725; in Leipzig from about 1685; violins and violoncellos of good tone, inelegant pattern; shows well the transition period between viol and violin by recurrence to older types of a five-stringed violoncello.
20HOFMANS, Matthias. Antwerp, 1700-50; choice maker in the Cremona style.

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