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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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1From this establishment emanated numerous imitations, both of English and foreign violin-makers, as well as those with his own name.
3Two sons of Thomas Dodd, named Thomas and Edward, were instructed in violin-making by Bernhard Fendt. Thomas had ability as a workman, and died in the early part of this century, whilst his father was residing in St. Martin's Lane. Edward appears to have given more attention to the manufacture of the harp and pianoforte, and was accidentally drowned on the 29th of April, 1843, in presence of one of his sons, "a youth whom he had just apprenticed to the sea, and who was going away that evening."
5Perhaps, before quitting this family-name, some notice is due, and should be taken, of John Dodd, the celebrated violin-bow-maker, the Tourte of England. He was the eldest-son of the first-named Edward, and in early years was a gun-lock fitter, afterwards a money-scale maker, but ended in being England's best bow-maker. It is considered that at one period, 1786-9, he lived in Southwark; afterwards he went to Kew, in Surrey, and resided there several years; at length he moved to Richmond, in the same county, where he died, and was buried at the Old Church of that place.
7Bernhard Fendt was born at Inspruck, in the Tyrol, about 1775-6, which place he left at the age of seven years, and went to reside in Paris with his uncle Fendt, or Fent, as the name is spelled in France, of whom he learned to make violins and violoncellos, &c. Very few facts of his early years are known by the surviving relatives, nor can they state when he first came to England; we, however, learn from other sources that he was engaged by Thomas Dodd, and entered into his employ in January 1798, and remained there for eleven years;
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