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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
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1of style is thrown into the work which transcends the ingenuity of any other copyist. Had he been allowed to copy the form of the old masters, as Lupot did, without imitating the actual wear of the instrument, we should have had a valuable addition to our present stock of instruments of the Panormo class.
3FENDT, Francis, London. Fourth son of Bernard; also worked in Liverpool about 1856.
5FENDT, William, London, born 1833, died 1852. Son of Bernard Simon Fendt. Was an excellent workman, and assisted his father in the manufacture of several of his Double-Basses.
7FERGUSON, Donald, Huntley, Aberdeenshire.
9FIRTH, G., Leeds, 1836.
11FORSTER, William, Brampton, 1713–1801. A maker of spinning-wheels and Violins.
13FORSTER, William, born in 1713, died 1801.
15William Forster,
16Violin Maker,
17in Brampton.
19The family of the Forsters have played no unimportant part in the history of Violins. The attention they commanded as makers, both from artists and amateurs, has probably never been equalled in England. Their instruments claimed attention from the moment they left their makers' hands, their construction being excellent in every way. William Forster was a native of Brampton, in Cumberland, where he followed the trade of a spinning-wheel maker,
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