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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1SECTION VII.
3The French School.
5THE French have long occupied a foremost place in the production of articles needing delicate workmanship, and it is, therefore, not surprising that they should at an early period have turned their attention to the art of Violin making, which requires in a high degree both skilful workmanship and artistic handling. The French manufacture of instruments of the Violin class appears to have commenced about the same period as the English manufacture, viz., in the early part of the 17th century, Médard and Tywersus being among the early French makers, and Rayman and Wise their fellows in England. The primitive French makers, like their English brethren, copied the Brescian and early Cremonese artists, whose model they adhered to down to the days of Barak Norman, when the two nations parted company as regards having a common type, the French continuing the path they had hitherto taken, and which they have followed, with scarcely any deviation, to the present time. The English departed from the Italian form for that of the German of Jacobus Stainer, which they adopted, with but few exceptions, for nearly a cen-
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