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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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1varnish, and with wood of the most exquisite regularity. The sound holes were almost perfect, the corners charming, and the margins fine and full. Of the subsequent work of this family I know nothing. The present firm is
3HILL AND SONS, W. E. The senior member of this firm is Mr. William Ebsworth Hill, a practical violin maker, and for many years known as a highly competent judge of classical instruments. He is assisted by his sons, William, Arthur, and Alfred Hill, and, in addition to their ordinary business, the firm have brought out several highly interesting monographs on fine violins in which they have embodied the results of the most recent research.
5JACOBS, PEETER, Amsterdam, 1690—1740. This maker copied Nicholas Amati with remarkable fidelity in almost every point. In the choice of his wood even, he sought to reproduce the figure generally associated with the name of the Cremonese master. He is very successful with the outline and arching. His work is, however, easily recognised by the purfling. He always used whalebone for this instead of the black stopping, and where the varnish has been worn off the purfling, a little rubbing will bring up on the whalebone a most glassy surface—if one cannot detect the maker in any other way. It glistens in a way unknown in any other case. His instruments are very good. Varnish, a red brown.
7JACOBS, Amsterdam. I do not know anything of this maker, who was perhaps related to the above Peeter. His instruments are reported to be coarse, but of good tone, and having a deep red varnish—transparent.
9JACQUOT, CHARLES, Paris. Born at Mirecourt, 1808.
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