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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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1NORMAN, BARAK, London. 1683—1740. A highly artistic maker of viols, violas, violoncellos, and violins. His work is often of a very refined character, with fruity decorations of a tasteful description. The style of his violins deserves the highest commendation except in the cutting of the sound holes, which are very much below par in the matter of design. But in other respects, the lines on which the instruments are built are exceedingly fine. His varnish is really nowhere by this time in point of colour, but it is of good quality. He was a partner of Nathaniel Cross, already mentioned, at "The Bass Viol in St. Paul's Church Yard, London."
3OTTO, JACOB AUGUSTUS, Halle and Jena. This maker was a pupil of Ernst, already mentioned, and is chiefly known for his work on the violin. I never saw any of his instruments. He had also four sons, who carried on the business or businesses, which were established by one or two of them in above and other places, but their work is hardly known, apparently, except by their father.
5PANORMO. A family of violin makers, about the earlier members of whom there is a great amount of confusion. Vincent, the first bearer of the cognomen, is supposed to have been a native of Palermo, in Sicily, where he is said to have been born in the beginning of the eighteenth century, and to have gone to Paris about 1735, where he attained a splendid reputation. His tickets there date from 1738 to about 1778, namely forty years, according to one authority, while, according to another, he was only a few years in Paris, and only a few violins are dated from it. He visited Ireland also, it is said, and made instruments there from an old
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