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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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1CHAPTER XV.
3We have already referred to the old makers, Ott, Frey, and Kerlin, and shall commence our account with the sixteenth century, wherein several foreign names occur, including the Amatis, but very few English. And the same remark will necessarily apply to makers as to performers, that in many cases they must belong to parts of two centuries. We may observe also, that we shall reserve a more detailed account of the English makers for an after part of the work.
5In that curious collection of persons, occupying about ninety lines, who resort to "Cocke Lorelles Boke," printed by Wynkyn de Worde in the early part of the reign of Henry VIII., there appear "orgyn makers," and "harpe makers," but no viol makers. Are we to assume that this omission arose from the paucity of their numbers, or from their being more select in the choice of their companions.
7There are many continental names handed down from this period; but, as we have before observed, the difficulty in some cases of ascertaining the dates, and even, though more rarely, the identity of the individual, is great; and we suspect that occasionally one maker may appear under two different names. The late Dr. Forster, in his "Epistolarium" and "Travels," gives the names
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