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The Violin: Its Famous Makers and their Imitators, 1875
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1SECTION IX.
2The English School.
4IT is somewhat remarkable that the Continental writers on the Violin should have omitted to mention any English maker either ancient or modern. Such an omission must have occurred either from want of information concerning our best makers, or, if known, they must have been deemed unworthy of the notice of our foreign friends. There is no mention of an English maker in Fétis's treatise on Antonius Stradiuarius, although numerous very inferior German and Italian makers are quoted. The same omission is also conspicuous in "Luthomonographie" and "Otto on the Construction of the Violin." It may be that Continental connoisseurs have credited themselves with the works of our best makers, and expatriated them, while they have inexorably allowed bad English fiddles to retain their nationality. However, it is my desire that my foreign brothers should be enlightened on this point, and in all candour informed of the array of makers that England has at different times produced, and is yet capable of producing, did but the new Violin command the price that would be a fair return for the time and skill required in the production of an
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