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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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1Thibout, J. P., Paris. Born at Caen, 1777. Died near Paris, 1856. This was an excellent French maker who started business in Paris in 1807. His workmanship is very fine, and distinctive in many instances by his corners, where the joinings of the sides are not made in the usual way, but square, through carrying out the corner blocks, and facing apex of these until about an eighth of inch surface appears. His margins are quiet and finished looking, and fall over, so to say, on the sides, not greatly projecting over these. His sound holes have something of the straight inner cut of Rogerius. His arching is flat, and his varnish a red mahogany, with a very slight tinge of brilliant brick red. His scrolls are beautiful, not so deep nor so long as other French or Italian specimens, but of exquisite line and curve in profile. Strong pegbox, and most finished volute. His tone is French, powerful, and good. Altogether his style is restrained, strong, and artistic, and his finish very fine.
3Thompson. Name of a number of London violin makers beginning with "Charles and Samuel Thompson in St. Paul's Church Yard, London," as the tickets run. None of the work is very good, that of Charles and Samuel being of poor outline, poor wood, poor, tasteless sound holes. Everything about it, indeed, more or less, mean. Thin tone, and weak, inartistic scroll. Their instruments have generally a pronounced groove round margins both back and front, and the varnish is of a lifeless, maple stain tint. This firm carried on business about 1720—48. Other firms of the name are Jno. Thompson, 1753—9, and thereabout. R. Thompson
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