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Scan 273
the history of the violin, 1864
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1Jay and Smith will be met with in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
3John Ross, or Rose, the elder, who was dwelling at Bridewell in the 4th of Elizabeth (1562), and was the inventor of the bandora, an instrument of the guitar sort, with wire strings; also made viols and instruments of that class; but Stow says he was excelled by his son in making bandoras, "voyal de gamboes," and other instruments.
5In a collection of airs, called "Tripla Concordia," published in 1667, a chest of viols is advertised, containing two trebles, three tenors, and one bass, made by Mr. John Ross, the son, in 1598.
7Henry Smith lived over against Hatton House, in Holborn, about 1629, and in the work just alluded to there is also an advertisement of a chest of viols, consisting of two trebles, two tenors, and two basses, made by him in 1633.
9The other name (Jay), which Thomas Mace mentions, is supposed to be Thomas Jay, who, no doubt, was dead at the time he wrote the "Musick's Monument," as he alludes to the instruments of the several makers being old. There were other viol makers, whose labels have been seen (Hill's MSS.), which will continue the link:—"John Shaw att the Goulden harp and Hoboy nere the May pole in the Strand 1656.' Also "Christopher Wise, in Half Moon Alley, without Bishops-gate, London, 1656;" and "William Addison in Long Alley over against Moorfields 1670." This brings us to Barak Norman, 1690, whom Sir J. Hawkins states (p. 793, Novello's edit.) "was one of the last of the celebrated makers of viols in England; he lived in Bishopsgate, and afterwards in St. Paul's Church Yard."
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