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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 of these instruments
Fleming, James M., b. 1839. London: Haynes, Foucher & Co., 1892.
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| 11 | PREFACE. | Read | |
| 46 | 32 | which has never been dispelled, and ther… | Read |
| 47 | 33 | tale. His sound holes are prettily cut,… | Read |
| 64 | 50 | possessor of the recipe for preparing th… | Read |
| 70 | 56 | was constrained to turn out the modern a… | Read |
| 71 | 57 | FORSTER, JOHN, Brampton. Born 1688. Of i… | Read |
| 72 | 58 | no less famous litterateur, Peter Pindar… | Read |
| 80 | 66 | became successor to his father. His inst… | Read |
| 81 | 67 | hands. Of course all violins were unders… | Read |
| 90 | 76 | GUADAGNINI, GIAMBATTISTA. Son of above.… | Read |
| 91 | 77 | GUADAGNINI, GUISSEPPE. Son of the precee… | Read |
| 98 | 84 | his son, Jean-Baptiste-Felix, born in Pa… | Read |
| 99 | 85 | varnish, and with wood of the most exqui… | Read |
| 100 | 86 | He was a pupil of Nicolas Ainë and Breto… | Read |
| 101 | 87 | JAY, HENRY, London, 1744—1777. Made a nu… | Read |
| 102 | 88 | and front are worked off straight to the… | Read |
| 103 | 89 | tone is by no means bad. He has often na… | Read |
| 104 | 90 | in the seeming recklessness with which h… | Read |
| 108 | 94 | said house began to pay to the parish of… | Read |
| 109 | 95 | The next important discovery which Profe… | Read |
| 112 | 98 | have been copied, and reproduced in the… | Read |
| 113 | 99 | regard to which the character of the woo… | Read |
| 114 | 100 | NORMAN, BARAK, London. 1683—1740. A high… | Read |
| 125 | 111 | not a very satisfactory way of dealing w… | Read |
| 126 | 112 | 1645, to a Margaretha Holzhammer, and ha… | Read |
| 134 | 120 | an unvarying standard. Viewed sideways a… | Read |
| 135 | 121 | most beautiful manner—like a thickish co… | Read |
| 136 | 122 | twice. The clerical patrons of the famil… | Read |
| 137 | 123 | Thibout, J. P., Paris. Born at Caen, 177… | Read |
| 138 | 124 | about 1749, Thompson and Son (S. and P.)… | Read |
| 139 | 125 | beautiful golden varnish, which hardly c… | Read |
| 140 | 126 | of the Brussels Conservatoire, was compi… | Read |
| 141 | 127 | the pens of the late Gustave Chouquet an… | Read |
| 175 | 161 | FERRARI, AGOSTINO, Budrio, 18th century. | Read |
| 176 | 162 | Ficker, Johann Gotlieb, probably also Ne… | Read |
| 177 | 163 | about sixteen, he put him in the shop, a… | Read |
| 178 | 164 | myself to the description of one specime… | Read |
| 179 | 165 | reputedly clever maker, who was a pupil… | Read |
| 180 | 166 | before—and had been found an idle one so… | Read |
| 187 | 173 | Hamberger, Joseph, Presburg, 1845. | Read |
| 188 | 174 | English West End maker, who used the Sta… | Read |
| 189 | 175 | pupil of Chanot of Manchester. Violins,… | Read |
| 190 | 176 | maker was very clever in imitating the C… | Read |
| 191 | 177 | of Jauch of Dresden and a worthy one of… | Read |
| 192 | 178 | KARB, Königsberg. A viol maker. | Read |
| 197 | 183 | LUDGE, GERONIMO PIETRO DE, Conegliano, 1… | Read |
| 198 | 184 | MANN (or Man), Hans, Naples, 18th centur… | Read |
| 199 | 185 | MARCONCINI, GAETANO, Ferrara. 18th centu… | Read |
| 205 | 191 | maker is said to have used the same mode… | Read |
| 206 | 192 | Moudoit. A maker of viols in the 16th ce… | Read |
| 207 | 193 | Nella, Raffaello, Brescia. About 1740. A… | Read |
| 208 | 194 | Noverci, Cosimo, Florence. About 1662. A… | Read |
| 219 | 205 | Remi, or Remy, Cremona, 18th century. It… | Read |
| 223 | 209 | ROTTENBOURG, ALBERT, Brussels. Died 1764… | Read |
| 250 | 236 | reject it. They are generally strong, da… | Read |
| 254 | 240 | elasticity. Too much of that is a nuisan… | Read |
| 288 | 268 | return to London. He made his home here… | Read |
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