Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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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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1about sixteen, he put him in the shop, and taught him all he knew. They now enjoy a good repute, and gained prizes at the exhibitions of Milan and Turin.
3FIRTH, G., Leeds, 1836.
5FISCHER, J., Landshut, 1722. The solitary relic of this maker appears to be a specimen of the one-stringed instrument called the marine trumpet. It is in the museum of the Society of the Friends of Music in Vienna, and bears above date.
7FISCHER, ZACHARIE, Wurtzburg, 1730—1812. Not so much a violin maker as he was a violin baker, from a mistaken notion that it matured the wood.
9FLETTÉ, BENOIST, Paris, 1763. Dean of the Paris Guild of Violin Makers for this year.
11FLEURY, BENOIST, Paris, 1755. Dean of the Violin Makers' Guild for this year. There is a bass viol of his of the same year in the museum of the Paris Conservatoire.
13FLORENTIUS, FIORINO, Bologna, 1685—1715.
14FLORENUS, GUIDANTUS, Bologna, 1716.
15FLORENUS, ANTONIO, Bologna.
16FLORENUS, GUIDANTUS GIOVANNI, Bologna, 1685—1740.
18There is considerable confusion with regard to these four Bolognese makers. The inscriptions on tickets vary in the most distracting, and, at the same time, the most amusing manner. Sometimes it is "Florentus Florinus," "Florentius Fiorino," "Florenus Florentus," "Florino Fiorenzo," and so on. The horticultural variations are very suggestive, and although they may all be variants of the same name, it will be as well if I confine

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