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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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1"Edward Dickinson
2maker at the Harp & Crown in the Strand near Exeter Change
3London 1754"
5EVANS, RICHARD. This name was in the Crwth mentioned in the former part of this work, which looked much older than the date in the following label, with its peculiar spelling:—
7"Maïd in the Paris of Lanïrhengel by Richard Evans Instrument maker in the year 1742."
9FRANKLAND, Robin Hood Court, Shoe Lane, 1785, occasionally employed as an outdoor workman by William Forster, numbers two and three.
11FURBER, DAVID, was the first of this name that made instruments. The times of his birth and death are not known; but the grandson, John Furber, said he was buried at Clerkenwell Church. He no doubt showed ability, as John Johnson, a violin-maker, living in Cheapside, in 1759, gave him further instruction.
13FURBER, MATTHEW, was the son of the previous named David Furber, and was taught by his father. Died about 1790, and buried at Clerkenwell Church.
15The second and third sons of the foregoing Matthew, named Matthew and John, were taught by their father; but whether the eldest son James was a fiddle-maker is not known. Matthew, the second son, died about 1830-1, and was buried at Clerkenwell Church. John Furber, in 1841, was living in Cow Cross, Smithfield, and has instructed his son, Henry John; both father and son, it
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