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The Fiddle Fancier's Guide: A Manual of Information Regarding Violins …, 1892
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1Forster, John, Brampton. Born 1688. Of interest chiefly because it is supposed that he was the father of William Forster, who follows. It is understood that John Forster made one violin.
3Forster, William, Brampton. Born 1713—4. Died 1801. He is chiefly of interest because he was the father of the next Forster.
5Forster, William, Brampton. Born about 1738. He was a spinningwheel maker, violin maker, and violinist, celebrated throughout the country side in Cumberland for his performance of Scotch reels. He also composed and published reels. He came to London in 1759, and tried spinningwheel making in Commercial Road, East, but not successfully. Then he manufactured gun stocks, and occasionally a violin for the music shops. By-and-by, after some hardship, he entered the service of a maker in Tower Hill named Beck. There is no trace of this Beck anywhere except in the biography of the Forsters. William Forster was successful with Beck, and asked an advance of wages, was refused, and left. In 1762 he began business on his own account in Duke's Court, St. Martin's Lane. Success came there in the form of aristocratic patronage, and between last date and 1782, he added music publishing to his business, and at this time used the title page of one of these works as a label. In 1781, he was in St. Martin's Lane, and three years later in the Strand—No. 348. Royal patronage now came, and the climax of his success was attained. He negotiated with Haydn for the publication of his works, and among his customers were the famous engraver, Bartolozzi, and the
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