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The Violin: A concise exposition of the general principles of construction.., 1871
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1CASTAGNERY, Jean Paul, Paris, 1640. A good French maker.
2CERUTI, H., Cremona, 1868. A good modern maker.
3CONTRERAS, Joseph, Madrid, 1745. A good maker. I have seen a violin by this maker, for which the possessor refused thirty guineas. It was made of excellent wood, of rich figure, and possessed a fine round tone.
4COSTA, Della Pietro, Treviso, 1660, 1680. Considered a good maker.
5CRAMOND, Charles, Aberdeen, 1821, 1833. Made some good instruments, of which several are in the county; his usual charge for a violin was about £5. About 1834 he went to Nova-Scotia.
6CUNI, ———, a good French maker.
7DARCHE, Aachen, a good imitator of old Italian violins
8DARDELLI, Pietro, Mantua, 1500. An early maker of viols, bass-viols, and rebeccs.
9DAVID, ———, a French maker about the eighteenth century.
10DAVIDSON, Hay, Huntly, 1870. Several violins by this maker have been pronounced good.
11DECOMBRE, or de Comble, Ambrose, Tournay, 1700, 1750. A pupil of Stradivarius. His basses are much esteemed.
12DODD, Edward, Sheffield and London, an improver of the bow. Dodd, John, son of the above, the celebrated bow-maker
13DOMINICELLI, ———, Ferrara, 1695, 1715. A pupil of the Amati school.
14DUCHERON, Mathurin, a good French maker.
15DUIFFO-PRUGGARD, or Duiffoprugcar, Gaspard, Bologna, Paris, and Lyons, 1510, 1540. Stated by some to have been the first maker of the real violin; he was born in the Italian Tyrol. Several violins and violas of this maker still exist, but upon minute examination many of them have been proved to have been refitted and altered viols; some of the scrolls have beautifully carved figures.
16DUKE, Richard, London, 1767, 1791. A celebrated English maker. A violin of this maker, dated 1776, which I have seen, possesses a very fine tone. It was purchased for thirty shillings.
17DUNCAN, ———. Aberdeen, 1762.
18DURFFEL, Johann Gottfried, Altenburg, 1778. Made fine toned instruments; his double-basses are highly esteemed. His violins have a very fine outline. Mr. W. Duncan, late of Tillydrine, possesses one having a fine tone, but no great intensity; it bears the following inscription:—"Johann Gottfried Dürffel, Violinmacher, Altenburg, 1778." It is not inlaid, and the interior of the instrument is rather roughly finished, but the thicknesses are well proportioned.
19EBERLE, Jean Ulric, Prague, 1749. An eminent German
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