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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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1The work is not of a high class; the tone deserves commendation, although more quality could be desired. The varnish is alcoholic, and not very transparent, nor is the instrument purfled; but on the whole it is an evident improvement on the fiddle seen of his father's make. The following is a copy of the inscription engraved on the tomb-stone, in the burial-ground of the old parish church of Brampton, about a mile, or little more, from the Town Foot:—
3"In memory of Wm. Förster
4Violin Maker of Brampton
5who died March 4th. 1801
6aged 87 years."
8Being recorded on this grave-stone as a violin-maker, and the spinning-wheel trade not being mentioned, may probably have arisen from the celebrity his son, William, had achieved in London as a maker of musical instruments of the violin genus.
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