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Old violins, 1905

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1DICTIONARY OF VIOLIN MAKERS
3LE BLANC. Family of makers who, through four generations, worked in Paris, eighteenth century.
4LEBLANC, Claude. Mirecourt, eighteenth century.
5LECLERC, J. N. Paris, 1760-80; good maker and repairer.
6LECOMTE (or Fouquet-Lecomte), Antoine. Paris, 1775-1800.
7LECUYER, Pierre. Paris, 1775-83.
8LEDOUC, Pierre. Paris, 1647; one of the oldest makers there.
9LEEB, J. Carl. 1792-1819. Vienna.
10LEFEBVRE (Lefebre), J. B. A Frenchman who worked in Amsterdam, 1735-70; Amati pattern; yellow varnish.
11LEFÈVRE (Lefebvre). Toussaint Nicolas Germain. Paris, 1783-89.
12LEGROS de la Neuville, Nicolas. French maker, eighteenth century; guitars, violins, and violoncellos.
13LE JEUNE. A family of makers who for several generations worked in Paris; nineteenth century.
14LE JEUNE, François. Paris, eighteenth century; violins and viols; not remarkable.
15LE JEUNE, Jean Baptiste. Made harps and violins in Paris; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
16LE JEUNE, Jean Charles. Paris in 1776; succeeded by his nephew, Guillaume Martin, in 1822.
17LE JEUNE, Louis. Paris, 1783-89.
18LE LIÈVRE. Paris, 1750-80.
19LEMBÖCK, Gabriel. 1814-92. Budapest; worked with Fischer in Vienna; copied Guarnerius; much esteemed.
20L'EMPEREUR, Jean Baptiste. Paris, 1750; few instruments.
21LENK, W., b. 1840; 1881, Schönbach bei Eger, Bohemia; worked under Klüher in Markneukirchen; then Berlin, Breslau, Vienna; finally settled at Frankfort; fair maker.
22LENTZ (Lenz), Johann Nicolaus. Came from the Tyrol to London; friend of Bernhard Fendt; varnished like Dodd and J. F. Lott.
23LEONI, Carlo. Treviso, 1861.
24LEONI. Parma in 1816.
25LE PILEUR, Pierre. Paris, 1750-55. Not very good.
26LÉTÉ, Simon, b. about 1768; 1828 made very cheap, good fiddles for £1; at one time a partner of J. B. Vuillaume.
27LEWIS, Edward. London about 1700. An excellent maker; yellow and red varnish; in Thomas Britton's collection was an "excellent tenor by Mr Lewis" and a "rare good" bass-violin.
28LIEBICH, Ernst, b. Oct. 27, 1796-1876; Stradivari and Guarneri pattern; he was the father of
29LIEBICH, Ernst. 1830-84, Breslau. Italian pattern. His son,
30LIEBICH, Ernst. 1862-95, Breslau. Excellent repairer; makes few, but good; best Italian patterns.
31LIEBICH, Johann Gottfried. 1752-1813.
32LIEDOLF, Joseph Ferdinand. Vienna eighteenth century.
33LIGNOLI, Andrea. Florence, seventeenth century.
34LILLY, James. An English maker, 1821.
35LINAROLO (Linerolli), Francesco Giovanni. A family, seventeenth century; on the verge of the violin period; some of their instruments have been adapted for tenors.

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