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

Books › The violin: its famous makers and their imitators. : With several wood engravings from photographs of the works of Stradiuarius, Guarnerius, Amati, and others, 1880 › scan 178

Scan 178

The violin: its famous makers and their imitators. : With several wood engravings from photographs of the works of Stradiuarius, Guarnerius, Amati, and others, 1880

23 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 160. See the scan on archive.org.

1BOOTH, son of the above, Leeds.
2BOUCHER, London, 1764.
3BROWN, James, London, born 1670, died 1834.
4Worked with Thomas Kennedy.
5BROWN, James, London, son of the above, born 1786, died 1860.
6CAHUSAC, London, 1788. Associated with the sons of Banks.
7CARTER, John, London, 1789, worked with John Betts.
8CHALLONER, Thomas, London. Similar to Wamsley.
9CLARK, London. Little known.
10COLE, Thomas, London, 1690.
11Thomas Cole, near Fetter Lane in Holborn, 16—
12COLE, James, Manchester.
13COLLIER, Samuel, 1750.
14COLLIER, Thomas, 1775.
15COLLINGWOOD, Joseph, London, 1760.
16CONWAY, William, 1750.
17CORSBY, Northampton, 1780. Chiefly made Double-Basses.
18CORSBY, George. Lived upwards of half a century in Princes Street, Leicester Square, where he worked and dealt in old instruments.
19CRAMOND, Charles, Aberdeen.
20CRASK, George, Manchester. Has made a great number of instruments of the common class, having similar characteristics with the modern copies.
21CROSS, Nathaniel, London, 1720. Worked with Barak Norman.
22CROWTHER, John, 1760—1810.

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