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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1turns again to "Duke," with whom he is thoroughly at home.
3Many excellent judges have wondered how it came to pass that Richard Duke should have been so highly valued, there being, in their estimation, so little amongst his remains worthy of the reputation he gained. The truth is, that no maker, with the exception of the great Cremonese artists, has been so persistently counterfeited. The name of Duke has been stamped upon every wretched nondescript, until judges who had not the opportunity of seeing the genuine article mistook the copies for the original, and hence the confusion. When, however, a really fine specimen of Duke is once seen, it is not likely to be forgotten. As copies of Amati such instruments are scarcely surpassed, varnish, work, and material being of the best description. The copies of Stainer were not so successful.
5Duke, Richard, London. Son of the above.
6Duncan, ——, Aberdeen, 1762.
7Eglington, ——, London, 1800.
8Evans, Richard, London, 1750. His label is a curiosity—
10Maid in the Paris of
11Lanirhengel, by Richard
12Evans, Instrument maker,
13in the year 17—
15Fendt, Bernard, born at Innsbruck, in the Tyrol, in 1756, died 1832. He was evidently a born Fiddlemaker, genius being stamped in a greater or less de-
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