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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, 1892
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1tone is by no means bad. He has often narrow margins.
3Lenz, J. N., London. 1803—1807. I have little to say in favour of this maker. Anything I have seen of his was of a very tasteless description. Very "scoopy" and unequal.
5Lenz, Jacob, London. I suppose this maker was a son of the preceeding. His work was of a superior kind, and he was a fine maker of double basses. He made, I believe, only two violins, one of which I have seen. It is a copy of Joseph Guarnerius, and is, in many ways, a very clever copy, except that the sound holes are far too wide. In other respects of arching and scroll, he has caught the points of Joseph very well. The wood in this instrument is fine.
7Lott, G. F., London. Born 1800. Died 1868. Was a son of the famous John Lott, mentioned below. He was a clever maker of old fiddles.
9Lott, John Frederick, London. 1775—1853. This was father of the preceeding, and following maker of same name. He was a German, and originally a cabinet maker, whom Bernard Fendt induced to take to fiddle making under Thomas Dodd, already mentioned. All his work is of a high character, especially his double basses, which are really chefs d'œuvres.
11Lott, John Frederick, London. Son of above, and hero of Charles Reade's Romance, "Jack of All Trades." He certainly was a clever violin maker, and took a long time to get up those imitations, with which, I daresay, a good many people were at one time hoaxed. There is, for example, an appearance of a kind of brutal hardihood,
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