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The Violin: Its Famous Makers and their Imitators, 1875
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1these Violins have been passing under other makers' names, and are frequently but little noticed.
3PEARCE, James, London, 18th century.
5PEMBERTON, Edward, London, 1660. This maker has been often mentioned as the author of a Violin said to have been presented to the Earl of Leicester by Queen Elizabeth, and to suit this legend Pemberton's era has been put back a century. The date given above will be found in his Violins.
7POWELL, London, 18th century.
9Made by Thomas Powell, No. 18, Clemens Lane, Clare Market.
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12PRESTON, John, York, 18th century.
14John Preston, York.
151791 Fecit.
17RAYMAN, Jacob, London, 17th century. The subject of this notice was probably a German from the Tyrol, who settled in England about 1620, and may be considered as the founder of Violin making in this country, there being no trace of any British Violin maker previous to that time. His work is quite different from that of the Old English Viol makers, and thoroughly Tyrolean in character. Violins were common in
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