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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1whom there exists a double bass in the church of St. James, where there is also a bass viol of good tone, by one François Borlon. It is considered probable that these three Borlons, or Porlons, as well as Verbruggen, have also made violins, and that they may come to light some day when the many ancient nooks of that quaint city have been more fully explored. From about 1700 to 1730, two makers, named Egidius Schnoeck and Rottenbrouck, worked in Brussels. Specimens of their manufacture exist, and are good. They are formed on the Amati models, and have a reddish brown varnish. Egidius Schnoeck had a son, or relative, who was in Brussels after 1744, as is evidenced from the following curious ticket taken from a bass which he had repaired: "Cette basse par Marc Snoeck, reparée pour faire voir à ces envieux mon adresse, icy près de l'église de Saint Cery, à Bruxelles, encien luthier." From about 1720 to 1750 Ambroise de Comble was a maker in Tournay. He claims and is admitted to have been an actual pupil of Stradivari, and to have worked for him in Cremona. He has left fine instruments, chiefly, it is said, some beautiful basses. His tables are, however, described as too thin, and the varnish, though fine, is rather dry. The model also is irregular, and the sound holes placed somewhat low. One Bossu, at Eterbeck-les-Bruxelles, from 1750 to 1780, was a good workman, who has left instruments of fine quality after the Amati form, with good yellow varnish. There are also specimens by Delanoix, of Brussls, about 1760, of similar workmanship, and, in the beginning of that century, Palate, of Liège, made very good instruments in imitation of the Italians. Some still in
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