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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1MARCONCINI, GAETANO, Ferrara. 18th century.
2MARCONCINI, GUISSEPPE, Ferrara. 18th century.
3MARCONCINI, LUIGI, Ferrara and Bologna. It is said that this maker was a pupil of Omobono Stradivari. Gaetono and Guiseppe were his sons, and Guiseppe is reported to have been a pupil of Storioni. The instruments of the latter have a fair reputation but I am not in a position to speak of any of them.
4MARCONI, ANTONIO, Conegliano. About 1878.
5MARCUS, JOHANNES, Busseto, 1540—80. A viol maker.
6MARIA, GIUESPPE DE, Naples. About 1779. Chiefly a maker of mandolines, etc.
7MARIANI, ANTONIO, Pesaro, 1570—1646. School of Maggini.
8MARINO, BERNARDINO, Rome, 1805. Violins.
9MARIS, Ferenzuola. Violins.
10MARQUIS, DE LAIR, Mirecourt. A 19th century maker of comparatively small interest. He made very big fiddles, and out of proportion. His sound holes are not so bad in the matter of design, but they are poorly cut and far apart. His margins are usually large, but vulgar. Edges round. Ribs good height and figure. Scroll tasteless. Varnish of a brown colour with a slight dull orange greenish tint about it here and there. "Marquis de Lair d'Oiseau" branded across the back just under the button.
11MARSHALL, JOHN, London, 1750—60. A good maker who used the Stainer model, and also made flatter instruments. He inscribed on one of his tickets "Good Beef 1d. A pound But trades all very Bad." He seems

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