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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1Remi, or Remy, Cremona, 18th century. It has been said there was a maker of this name in Cremona, who made ordinary violins so far as concerns quality. He branded his name on them, and carved heads of monsters, etc., on the scrolls. Dark coloured varnish. I have not seen any. Another maker of this name was in London about fifty years ago, who doctored the wood of his instruments. He came from Paris. In Paris there were established—
3Remy, Nicolas, Paris. About 1760. He made violins, violas, and basses after the style of the earlier French makers, such as Louis Guersan.
5Remy, Jean, Mathurin, Paris. Born 1770. Died 1854. Son of preceding. Somewhat of the same kind of work.
7Remy, Jules, Paris. Born 1813. This maker was in business until recently, and was a son of Jean Mathurin Remy.
9Renaudin, Leopold, 1788—95. A maker of double basses which are sought after in France. He made himself busy in the excesses of the French Revolution, and was one of those political splutterers who, untrained in the art of agitation, blunder into murder, and then whimper when they are themselves condemned to death. That is the most charitable view of his character, but if history is accurate in its details, he was one of those sanguinary creatures whose birth in the ranks of the human specie appears to be quite inexplicable. He was beheaded in 1795.
11Renaudin, Ghent, 1781. A repairer.

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