Scan 327
The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
22 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. Printed page 253. See the scan on archive.org.
1interest in Violin-making, and made several excellent instruments.
3FELDEN, M. Vienna, about 1550. Maker of Viols.
5FICHOLD, Hans, about 1612.
7FICHTL, Martin, Vienna, 1757. Large pattern, good varnish, wood of excellent quality.
9FICKER, 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.
11FICKER, Johann Gotlieb, Cremona, 1789.
13FISCHER, Zacharie, Würtzburg, 1730. This maker adopted the practice of baking the wood for the manufacture of Violins.
15FREY, Hans, Nüremberg and Bologna, born about 1440. A celebrated maker of Lutes. He was the father-in-law of Albert Durer. John Evelyn, in his Diary, 1645, after speaking in praise of the cheese and sausages of Bologna, refers to the great celebrity of the Lutes by the old masters of that city, and mentions Hans Frey. He says they "were of extraordinary price, and the workmen were chiefly Germans."
17FRITZCHE, ——, Leipsic, about 1780—1810.
19GEDLER, Johann A., Fussen, about 1750.
21GEDLER, Johann B., Fussen, about 1780.
Makers on this page
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.