Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Scan 38

The reminiscences of a fiddle dealer, 1925

5 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 14. See the scan on archive.org.

1The Fiddle Dealer
3For many a long day this violin gave me great pleasure.
4Through this little experience I was thoroughly disillusioned of my belief that the particular tone I longed for, would be found in any instrument nameless or otherwise, and I, therefore, gave up the search though I was still glad to see fiddles of all genres. But in 1867 a change occurred in my occupation, through which I got greater facilities for seeing stringed instruments of the highest class than I could possibly have had at that time in Great Britain.

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