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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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1of them have realized as much as fifty pounds. Fashion, however, has now declared against these excellent instruments of the Banks family, and all English manufacture must give place to those with foreign names.
3About the year 1826 a violoncello of this maker was in possession of the Pembroke family, which was made entirely from the wood of a cedar of Lebanon which formerly grew in Wilton Park, but had been blown down, and a portion of it was used for the purpose above stated. The tone was not good, from the wood being too dense for the upper vibrating plate; but it may be considered a curiosity, and as such no doubt the earl who ordered it to be made considered it. His lordship having had a silver plate let into the under vibrating plate, or back, on which was engraved the particulars regarding the tree, also the name of the instrument maker. Although this violoncello was seen at the town residence of the Dowager Countess of Pembroke in Privy Gardens, Whitehall, there is every probability that it may be now at Wilton House, near Salisbury; and if it could not be seen with facility at the family mansion, there is much to admire and elevate the mind by viewing the fine collection of choice paintings of the old masters, and a quadrangle containing sculpture of a high order.
5Benjamin Banks, the younger. There was some doubt, at one time, whether or no this Benjamin Banks, the second son of the former of that name, was a maker of musical instruments; for we learn that about the latter part of the last century he was connected with a person named Cahusac, in a boot and shoe shop, on Fish Street Hill. There appear to have been intermarriages between the families of Banks and Cahusac, and Cahusac and Banks. Ultimately he became associated either with his father-in-law, or a son of the same, in the musical
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