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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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1maker was very clever in imitating the Cremonese varnish. His instruments are also very well made, and covered sometimes with a fine golden varnish, and at other times with a dark red—very transparent. The tone of such violins of his as I have seen, does not, however, come altogether up to one's expectations.
3Höhne, Dresden. Modern.
4Holloway, J., London, 1794.
5Homolka, F., Kuttenburg. Modern.
6Horil, Giacomo, Rome. About 1742.
7Horenstainer, Andrew.
8Horenstainer, Joseph
9Horenstainer, Matthias
10Horenstainer, Martin
11This is a trade firm in Mittenwald, Bavaria. For more than 150 years, there has been a representative, apparently, in existence. The instruments are in many cases fairly good.
13Hosborn, Th. Alf., London. About 1629. An old viol maker, a specimen of whose work was in the Paris Exhibition of 1878.
15Huber, Johann George, Vienna, 1767. Viol maker.
16Hulinski, Prague, 1760. Good maker. Warm brown varnish.
17Huller, August, Shöneck, 1775.
18Hume, Richard, Edinburgh, 1535. The earliest known viol maker in Great Britain.
19Humel, Christian, Nuremberg, 1709.
20Hunger, C. F., Leipsic. Born in Dresden 1718. Died in Leipsic 1787. A fine maker. He was a pupil
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