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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 aggravated dyspepsia and other constitutional evils which were never eradicated; indeed, it is questionable if some of the present generation are not sufferers from the internal debility then created, which has descended to them, although their own struggles in life have been sufficient to cause it. Ultimately he gained permanent employment at a music-shop on Tower Hill, kept by a person named Beck; and the violins made by him being much approved of, with a quick sale of them, he solicited for greater remuneration; the employer refusing to accede, he left him and came westward to a house on the right-hand side, and about the middle of Duke's Court, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross. The houses are all now pulled down, and the National Picture Gallery erected partly on the site; he pitched his tent here for a time, and afterwards resided in St. Martin's Lane, near to and on the same side as May's Buildings. The following is a copy of the label used at that period:—
3"William Forster,
4Violin Maker
5in St. Martin's Lane. London
61762."
8While residing here, a Colonel West, of the Grenadier Guards, who was the father of the late Temple West, of Malvern Lodge, Worcestershire, Esquire, gave him an order for a new violin, to be made similar to a pattern then shown, which he completed so successfully that the colonel became a kind, generous, and sincere patron. He also, being an amateur desirous of improving the violin, had numerous experiments tried in the manufacture of such instruments, which this artisan executed for him. The advantages thus gained were always gratefully acknowledged by William Forster (2) as being of
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