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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators. : With several wood engravings from photographs of the works of Stradiuarius, Guarnerius, Amati, and others, 1880
13 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 164. See the scan on archive.org.
1which enabled his son to profit considerably during his early years whilst working with Fendt and Lott.
3DORANT, William, London, 1814.
5DUKE, Richard, 1768. The name of this maker has long been a household word with English Violinists, both amateur and professional. Who has not got a friend who is the fortunate owner of a veritable "Duke?"
7Richd. Duke,
8Londini fecit 17—
10The fame of his majesty Antonius Stradiuarius himself is not greater than that of Richard Duke in the eyes of many a Fiddle fancier. From his earliest fiddling days the name of Duke became familiar to him; he has heard more of him than of Stradiuarius, whom he somehow confuses with Cremona. He fondly imagines that Cremona was a celebrated maker and Stradiuarius something else; inquires, and becomes more confused, and returns again to "Duke," with whom he is thoroughly at home.
12Many 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
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