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Old violins and violin lore, 1900
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1OLD VIOLINS
3he set up in St. Martin's Lane, and then went to 348 Strand. He had by this time attracted the attention of royalty, and the Duke of Cumberland, George III.'s son, is said even to have once dined with him off black pudding.
5Old Forster's versatility and enterprise is still further shown by his opening communications with the great Joseph Haydn, and it is chiefly to him that England owes the introduction and publication of Haydn's immortal Symphonies.
7The shrewd old man doubtless saw the profit which lay hid in a scheme which would popularise the greatest writer for stringed instruments who ever lived, and he had not miscalculated.
9The same cleverness which prompted him to give the English a dose of the Stainer model when Stainer was the rage, prompted him to revert to the later Amati grand pattern as he reached his ripe maturity. He also changed his varnish before the close of his life, and is said to have found the secret of solving amber with the assistance of the chemist Delaporte, who invented some stuff known as the Verins Martin.
11Amongst his patrons were George III., who, as Prince of Wales, was fond of playing the violoncello, probably one of "Old Forster's," and who, when he asked Haydn, who had been listening to him, how he thought he played, received the altogether diplomatic reply, "Vy, your 'ighness do play like a Brince."
13Peter Pindar (Dr. Walcot) and Bartolozzi the engraver were also amongst Forster's patrons. He made
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