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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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1that upon the instruments known as Dodd's and the elder Lott. The printed label, which has been seen, was as follows, the date being put in with a pen:—
3 "Johann Nicolaus Lentz, Fecit
4 near the Church, Chelsea. 1803."
6The names of the two violin makers which follow, Matthew Hardie and his son Thomas Hardie, perhaps, in a strict sense, should not be placed in this section; they were, however, clever workmen, especially the elder, and endeavoured by attention to the gauging to accomplish great power of tone in the violins, tenors, and violoncellos which they made. Although the work was not at all times as neat as could be desired to rank them as first-rate workmen, yet they frequently gained the object they tried for, and could execute first-class work if the mind was not under the baneful influence of whiskey. Matthew Hardie was held in much esteem as a violin maker in his locality, and was living in "The Calton," Edinburgh, in the latter half of the last and the beginning of the present century, about the point where the Waterloo Bridge now crosses that street. He died in the workhouse of St. Cuthberd's, or West Church parish, about 1825-6, and it is believed that he was interred in the burial ground of the Grey Friars Church of Edinburgh.
8Thomas Hardie, the son of the former Matthew, was born in 1804, and it is believed learned violin-making of his father; he was a clever workman, but his dissolute and intemperate habits lost him the employ he could have commanded, and of late years the utmost penury was the penalty. He died on the 19th January, 1856, aged fifty-two, and his death was caused by falling "down a stair in the lawn market;" and through the kind exer-
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