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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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1regarding this person seemed to recall all the pleasures of youth. It may be interesting to state that Shug Lane is an abbreviation of Sugar House Lane, taking its name from a sugar baker's establishment having been built there in Charles the Second's reign. It was then the high road from the village of Charing to Tyburn.
3Weaver, Samuel. No instruments have been seen of this person's make; but the copy of a printed label is as follows:—
5"All Sorts of Musical Instruments made & Sold by Sam'l Weaver on London Bridge."
7Wightman, George. Nothing is known of this workman or his instruments, but he used a written label thus:—
9"George Wightman Wood Street London 1761."
11Wright, Daniel. The same remarks as the preceding may be applied to this maker; the date being about 1745:—
13"Made by Daniel Wright in Holborn, London."
15Wornum. The Musical Directory for 1794, p. 71, gives this name as a violin and violoncello maker, No. 42, Wigmore Street. No instruments have been seen.
17Young, John, lived at the west corner of London-house Yard, in St. Paul's Church-yard, at the sign of the Dolphin and Crown, about the year 1724, and is styled a maker of violins and other instruments by Sir John Hawkins (Novello's edition, p. 807): "He lives not by his works!" Nevertheless concerts of instrumental music were advanced by him and his son, Talbot Young.
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