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The fiddle fancier’s guide; a manual of information regarding violins, violas, basses and bows of classical and modern times, together with biographical notices and portraits of the most famous performers on these instruments

Fleming, James M., 1839-. London, Haynes, Foucher & co., 1892.

Book. On archive.org as cu31924022320166.

51 pages read (scans 2 to 70)38 names found30 makers on this site cite it

Towns it names most

Cremona5
London3
Paris3
Venice2
Mirecourt2
Mantua1
Florence1
Genoa1
Tournay1
Madrid1
Innsbruck1

Pages

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2 THE FIDDLE FANCIER'S GUIDE. Read
3 (No text present on this page) Read
4 THE Read
5 PRINTED BY Read
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14 THE Read
15 one. Writers of eminence, who, at that t… Read
19 It so happens that the rejection of this… Read
20 diplomatic mission saw it, while a three… Read
21 word in almost its primitive phonetic pu… Read
22 of these almost prehistoric colonists. T… Read
32 for such a classification, but the pages… Read
33 well pause when we are asked to believe… Read
34 being interchangeable. "Lebab" signifies… Read
35 holes. There is also a tail piece to thi… Read
36 presses, and in these are found illustra… Read
37 spot in which the bridge is placed. With… Read
38 CHAPTER IV. Read
39 am speaking now principally of violins f… Read
40 as yet been able satisfactorily to expla… Read
41 research before the world in some out-of… Read
42 the choosing of them. In the matter of t… Read
43 CHAPTER V. Read
44 Sometimes these inscriptions are not ver… Read
45 which has never been dispelled, and ther… Read
46 tale. His sound holes are prettily cut,… Read
47 having beautiful golden-brown varnish ov… Read
48 of this firm's wood of a nice open grain… Read
49 rare, although one would not readily sup… Read
50 was his junior by thirteen years. They h… Read
51 AUGIÉRE. A very good Parisian maker, est… Read
52 dozens of other makers who have tried it… Read
53 In some instruments it has crackled all… Read
54 Bergonzi, Nicolaus, Cremona, 1739—1765.… Read
55 Betts, John, London. He was born at Stam… Read
56 its original, but the sound holes appear… Read
57 ment. The tone is not without breadth, a… Read
58 have seen which I could be persuaded to… Read
59 succeeded to Storioni's business in 1790… Read
60 a new violin which did not succeed perma… Read
61 maker has undoubtedly high claims to ack… Read
62 violins. The varnish on the back is a li… Read
63 possessor of the recipe for preparing th… Read
64 —there were several of them—appear to ha… Read
65 ment with Thomas Dodd already mentioned.… Read
66 sion, and although B. S. Fendt got a pri… Read
67 Council medal to J. B Vuillaume. A decis… Read
68 FENDT, JACOB, London. Born 1815. Died 18… Read
69 was constrained to turn out the modern a… Read
70 Forster, John, Brampton. Born 1688. Of i… Read

Makers from this book

30, A to Z.