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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 XXI.
3ALTHOUGH many of the persons in the list just ended were very common workmen, yet there were others, during the same period, who by their talent and industry were gaining a position and becoming some of England's best artists in violin, viola, and violoncello making; not only creating a style of finish in their work by which they are known, but also producing a quality and character of tone to which professors will allude and draw comparison. With these names of violin-makers it is intended to commence with the oldest date and carry each school through to the present time, enumerating, as far as our knowledge will enable us, all those persons who have been pupils, and others who have followed a similar style, that the character and style of each artist may be kept separate.
5Dr. Thomas Forster, in the preface to his "Epistolarium," vol. ii. p. 4, states the Forster family to be very ancient, and believed to have come from Normandy with William the Conqueror; also, that distinguished services were rendered at the battle of Crecy and also at Agincourt by one of this name, for which the king conferred the coat-of-arms and created General Sir Ferdinand Forster, knight banneret.
7It is not known from what branch of the family Dr.
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