Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909

60 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 513. See the scan on archive.org.

1Ditton … … … … 301
2Dodd; Thomas, a dealer and employer of makers of high merit, and famous for his varnish … … … 301
3Dodd, Thomas (fils) … … 303
4"Dolphin Strad," The … … 200
5Dominicelli … … … III
6Döpfer, Nicolaus … … 262
7Dorant, William … … 304
8Double-Basses and Violas the stepping-stones to Violin-making … … … … 25
9Dragonetti, his heavy strings … 51
10Dragonetti's Gasparo da Salò … 463
11Droulot … … … … 238
12Ducheron, Mathurin … … 238
13Duiffoprugcar, Gaspar, comparison of his claims with those of Gaspar da Salò; description of his work … III
14Duke, Richard, one of the most distinguished of English makers, but often counterfeited … … … … 304
15Duke, Richard (fils) … … 305
16Du Mesnil, Jacques … … 238
17Duncan … … … … 305
18Durfel … … … … 262
20E
21Earliest representation of stringed instruments … … 6
22Early history of Violin involved in obscurity … … 1
23Early makers, their great care in selection of wood for the Violins … … … … 33
24Eastern origin of the Bow, alleged … … … … 4
25Eberle, J. Ulric, good copyist of Italian masters … … 262
26Eccles, John Henry, musician to Louis XIV.; his solos for the Violin … … … 385
27Eccles, Thomas, an itinerant Violinist … … … 385
29Edlinger, Joseph Joachim … 262
30Edlinger, T. … … … 262
31Eesbroeck, Jean Van … … 238
32Eglington … … … … 305
33Egyptian Obelisk, stringed instruments on … … … 6
34"Elector Stainers," The Twelve … 275
35Elliston and George III. … 444
36Elsler, Joseph … … … 263
37Engel's "Researches into Early History of the Violin" … 4
38English Makers, List of … 293
39English makers, no mention of by continental writers on the Violin … … … … 284
40English School, The, 284: causes of its decadence … 285
41Ernst, Franz Anton; an eminent Violinist, and pupil of Lolli; also a maker … … … 263
42Ernst, Herr, his exquisite style as a Violinist … … … 409
43Ettrick Shepherd, The, and the Violin … … … … 482
44Eugène, Prince, and Stradivari 203
45European origin of the Violin II
46Evans, Richard … … … 305
47Evelyn, John, on celebrity of old Lutinists … … … 263
48Experiments as to tension of Violin strings … … … 54
50F
51Falaise, copied Amati and Stradivari; good work … 239
52Farinato, Paolo … … … 112
53Felden, M. … … … 263
54Fendt (or Fent) … … … 239
55Fendt, Bernard, an admirable workman, employed by Dodd and John Betts … … 305
56Fendt, Bernard Simon, a high-class maker Italian models … 307
57Fendt, Francis … … … 309
58Fendt, Jacob, clever copyist of Stradivari … … … 308
59Fendt, Martin … … … 308

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