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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1SECTION XII.
2English Makers.
4ABSAM, Thomas, Wakefield, 1833.
5 Made by
6 Thomas Absam,
7 Wakefield, Feb. 14,
8 1833.
10ADAMS, Garmouth, Scotland, 1800.
11ADDISON, William, London, 1670.
12AIRETON, Edmund. Was originally employed in the workshop of Peter Wamsley, at the "Harp and Hautboy," in Piccadilly. He made a great many excellent Violins and Violoncellos, and chiefly copied Amati. Varnish of fair quality; colour yellow. He died at the advanced age of 80, in the year 1807.
13ALDRED, ——, about 1560. Maker of Viols.
14ASKEY, Samuel, London, about 1825.
15BAINES, about 1780.
16BAKER, ——, Oxford. Mention is made of a Viol of this maker in the catalogue of the music and instruments of Tom Britton, the small-coal man.
17BALLANTINE, Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1850.
18BANKS, Benjamin, Salisbury, born 1727, died 1795. To this famous maker must be given the
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