Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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The History of the Violin: And Other Instruments Played on with the Bow from the Remotest Times to the Present, Also, an Account of the Principal Makers, English and Foreign, with Numerous Illustrations, 1864

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1We may add Mr. Chorley's truthful remarks as to the long musical union of Lindley and Dragonetti. "Nothing has been since heard to compare with the intimacy of their mutual musical sympathy; nor is a pair of figures so truly characteristic now to be seen in any orchestra. Those two are among the sights of London that have vanished for ever."*
3At present Howell may be considered our principal orchestral player, with whom there are other excellent performers.
5We will now proceed to give some account of the various makers to the best of our power; but the difficulties of arranging these have been great in some cases from the deficiency of genuine information—from the vagueness and contradictory nature of the results of our inquiries and researches in others, so that a degree of uncertainty pervades the history even of some of the best known names. There seems, for instance, to be a difference of opinion as to the number of makers of the name of Amati. We hope, however, to be able to supply the names of all the makers of any note, and rather than be deficient in this respect shall include many that will be but little known to the generality of our readers; we have used every means in our power to make our account as correct as possible, but we must claim indulgence for the deficiencies which we fear may be found, in consequence of the scanty, imperfect, and conflicting materials with which in numerous cases we have had to deal.
7* "Thirty Years' Musical Recollections," i. 80.

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