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the history of the violin, 1864
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1not known, neither can the time of his birth be ascertained.
3William Fendt was the second son of Bernhard Simmon Fendt, and was born in 1833, in Finch Lane, City. He learned violin-making of his father, and became an expert workman. He died in his twentieth year, at 7, Smith Street, Brompton, in 1852, and was buried in the Brompton Cemetery.
5As the youngest son of John Frederick Lott states that his father died on the 13th April, 1853, aged seventy-eight, he would have been born in 1775. Previous to entering the employ of Thomas Dodd, in March, 1798, he had been a chair maker, therefore his knowledge of violin-making was acquired of Bernhard Fendt. For several years previous to his death, he carried on the musical business in King Street, Seven Dials, at which place he died, and was buried in the church-yard of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields. He was celebrated for making double-basses.
7There are two sons of this person, the oldest named George Frederick Lott, born about 1800-1, and the younger of the same name as the father. Both of them, at different periods, were in the employ of W. Davis of Coventry Street; and much of the adventurous life of the younger, in after years may be read in the novel, "Cream," and "Jack of all Trades," by Charles Reade. The two sons are still living.
9Johann Nicolaus Lentz was a German, from the Tyrol, and in the latter part of the last century had been servant to a gentleman in Duke Street, St. James's. Being an acquaintance of Bernhard Fendt, he had picked up some knowledge of violin and violoncello-making, and in consequence he began as a maker in the early part of this century. The varnish used by him was similar to
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