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Scan 301
the history of the violin, 1864
15 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. Printed page 279. See the scan on archive.org.
1The houses on London Bridge were all cleared away between the years 1757-1759 ("Chronicles of London Bridge," second edition, p. 378, et seq.); but this label seems much older.
3MORRISON, JOHN, it is believed, was born about 1760, and it is not known who taught him the fiddle trade. He had a small shop in Princes Street, Soho, the beginning of this century, but quitted it in 1819, and, after residing in Shadwell for a time, ultimately located in Little Turnstile, Holborn, where he died between the years 1820-30. His work was very common, and he was mostly employed in making instruments for the music houses.
5NAYLOR, ISAAC, was a pupil of Richard Duke, and lived at Headingley, near Leeds, Yorkshire, 1778-1792.
7NEWTON, ISAAC, was a maker of average goodness, and occasionally employed to repair and make violins and violoncellos for Betts; the new instruments being varnished at the house of the latter, as the varnish of his own was a dingy yellow, somewhat like that used by Smith. He died about 1825, and his age is supposed to be between seventy and eighty years.
9PEARCE, JAMES AND THOMAS, were brothers, and very common workmen, living in Peter Street, Saffron Hill, one of the Rookeries of London, the latter part of the last century or the beginning of the present one.
11PRESTON, JOHN. It is not known if this person be related to John Preston the music publisher, who formerly resided at 97, Strand, London, and also called himself a musical instrument maker; but the latter only dealt in them as a music house. Labels used by the former of this name—
13"Preston Pavement York 1789;
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