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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1AND VIOLIN MAKERS
3his instruments. Frequently uses purfling made in five strips (three black and two white) and works on a model of his own design.
5DERAZEY, HONORÉ.—Mirecourt, Paris; to about 1875. Some of his copies are good sound instruments; chiefly Stradivari pattern. His son, Justin Derazey, was a manufacturer on a large scale, and bought the business of "didier" Nicholas from the latter's widow.
7DEROUX.—Mirecourt, Paris; nineteenth century. There were two makers of the name. Georges, died 1889 (Reims). Worked for Derazey, and Mougenot of Brussels. Work branded, and name sometimes pencilled in instruments. His son, Auguste, born 1848, worked with Hippolyte Silvestre, and Miremont. Is a good repairer and a medallist.
9DESPINE, ALEXANDER.—Turin. Worked until about 1845. Was employed by Pressenda, and made some fine violins which bear that maker's ticket. Occasionally copied Guarneri, del Gesù. Piatti at one time possessed a violoncello made by him.
11DE VITOR, Pietro Paolo.—Venice, Brescia; about 1740. Made some large fiddles of Maggini pattern.
13DIEHL.—A number of makers of the name worked in Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
15DODD.—An English family, chiefly distinguished as bow-makers, in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. There were seven or eight workmen. John, born at Stirling, 1752, died in Richmond Workhouse, 1839, was the best-known bow-maker,
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