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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875

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1DARCHE, Aachen. Imitator of the old masters.
2DIEHL, Nicholas, Darmstadt, 1690.
3DIEHL, Hamburg.
4DURFEL, Altenburg, 18th century. A well-known German Double-Bass maker.
5EBERLE, Jean Ulric, Prague, 1750. Was a good copyist of the old Italian masters.
6EDLINGER, Prague, 1712.
7ELDINGER, Joseph Joachim, Prague. Son of the above.
8ELSLER, Joseph, Mayence, 1720—1750. Made many good Viols da Gamba.
9ERNST, François Antoine, Bohemia, 1745—1765.
10FEBBRE, Amsterdam, 1762. Made chiefly Violoncellos.
11FICHTOLD, Hans, 1612.
12FICKER, Johann Christian, Cremona, 1720. Said to have lived in the midst of the greatest makers the world has had; if so, he certainly did not make himself acquainted with the art of Violin making as understood in Cremona. His instruments may have been made at Mittenwald, and dated from Cremona.
13FICKER, Cremona, 1789.
14FISCHER, Zacharie, Würtzburg, 1730. This maker introduced the baneful practice of baking the wood for the manufacture of Violins.
15FREY, Hans, Nuremberg, 1450. A celebrated maker of Lutes and Viols. He was the father-in-law of Albert Durer.

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