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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
13 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026. Printed page 330. See the scan on archive.org.
1WITHERS, Edward. Son of the above. Wardour Street, Soho. Was instructed by John Lott.
3YOUNG, London, about 1728. Lived in St. Paul's Churchyard. Purcell has immortalised father and son in the first volume of his Catches.
5"You scrapers who want a good Fiddle well strung,
6You must go to the man that is old while he's Young;
7But if this same Fiddle you fain would play bold,
8You must go to his son, who'll be Young when he's old.
9There's old Young and young Young, both men of renown,
10Old sells, and young plays, the best Fiddles in town;
11Young and old live together, and may they live long,
12Young, to play an old Fiddle; old, to sell a new song."
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