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The story of the violin, 1904
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1Violin-making in England
3introduced the Stainer models into England. He lived in London about the middle of the seventeenth century. Other makers of the second half of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century are: Edward Pamphilon; Barak Normann (1688-1740), the best old English viol and violin-maker, imitator of Maggini; Cuthbert Urquhart, William Addison (1670), and Thomas Cole (1690), a celebrated old master.
5In the course of the eighteenth century we meet with several distinguished names, chief among them that of Richard Duke (Holborn, London, 1768), who imitated the best Stradivari patterns, and also those of Amati and Stainer in a most meritorious style; and Benjamin Banks (Salisbury, 1727-95), one of the best English makers, whose instruments are justly appreciated.
7In still more modern times, reaching to our day, perhaps best known are the names of: John Thomas Hart (1805-74), noted for his valuable collection of old violins and as a sound student and connoisseur of the Italian masters; William Ebsworth Hill and Sons, descendants of William Joseph Hill (see Appendix); and Thomas Dodd, justly famous for his bows, which rank with the best.
9To these names, besides others given in the Appendix, representing English activity in violin-making, could doubtless be added many more,1 but it would be misplaced patriotism to assert that on the whole these makers—distin-
111 See also the recent publication, English Violin-makers, by Meredith Morrison; 1904.
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