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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 XXIII.
3WILLIAM FORSTER, the third of this name as a violin-maker, was the son of the previous William Forster (2), and was born on the 7th January, 1764, in Prescott Street, Goodman's Fields; it is believed the house was No. 12. He must have evinced an early talent as a workman, for the first violin in the list of the best instruments he made is entered in the year 1779; but precocious talent, in general, seldom advances; at first it bursts forth like the bright rays of the sun from behind a dense cloud; the praises then bestowed, and the flattery given, make it conclude it is perfection, and produce a self-confidence and sufficiency that often lead to idleness, and consequently it ceases to exert mental energies, and the probability is its possessor becomes of lymphatic temperament, and moves not onwards to keep pace with the world's advancement. However, there may be a cause in this instance why he became averse to the confinement and toil of the work-room. He was fond of the drama, and associated with private theatricals. It has been told to one of the family, by the late Mr. Charles Wodarch, a cousin of the Kembles, and formerly the leader of the orchestra of Covent Garden Theatre, that he had talent for acting, and that he had seen him perform the
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