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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1favourable conditions the results could not fail to be good.
3DODD, Thomas, London. Son of Thomas Dodd, musical instrument dealer, of St. Martin's Lane. The father was not a maker of Violins, but possessed excellent judgment both as regards work and makers, which enabled his son to profit considerably during his early years whilst working with Fendt and Lott.
5DORANT, William, London, 1814.
7DUKE, Richard, 1768. The name of this maker has long been a household word with English Violinists, both amateur and professional. Who has not got a friend who is the fortunate owner of a veritable "Duke"? The fame of his majesty Antonius Stradiuarius himself is not greater than that of Richard Duke in the eyes of many a Fiddle fancier.
9Richard Duke, Maker. From his earliest fiddling days the name of Duke became familiar to him; he has heard more of him than of Stradiuarius, whom he somehow confuses with Cremona. He fondly imagines that Cremona was a celebrated maker and Stradiuarius something else; inquires, and becomes more confused, and returns again to "Duke," with whom he is thoroughly at home.
11Many excellent judges have wondered how it came to pass that Richard Duke should have been
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