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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1VIOLIN TONE
3with an individual named Freeman, of whom nothing else seems to be known. He worked near the Royal Exchange.
5HARMAND, L.—Mirecourt; eighteenth century. Medium sized fiddles, with reddish varnish. Stamped "Au Roi David. L. Harmand."
7HARRIS, CHARLES.—Oxford, London. Worked until about 1800. His work is rarely labelled, and is little known, except to a few of the dealers. An excellent maker, whose fiddles and basses (particularly the latter) are deservedly in high repute. The pattern is generally that of Stradivari; Amati copies do not so frequently occur. Harris is noted amongst other things for his varnish of a warm red tint. A son of the same name worked in Oxford and London, and was for a time employed by John Hart.
9HART.—A name familiar to violinists the world over. The firm of Hart and Son was established in Lower Wardour Street (formerly Princes Street, Leicester Square) by JOHN THOMAS HART, who died in 1874. He was apprenticed to Samuel Gilkes, but made few instruments. John Hart and Georges Chanot I., of Paris, were in their day the most renowned judges of fiddles in Europe, and the former was instrumental in forming some of the most notable collections of violins that have ever been brought together. GEORGE HART I., his son, who died in 1891, was also a judge of the highest eminence, but will always be remembered as the author of "The Violin, its Famous Makers and their Imitators," which is recognised as the standard English work of reference. It passed through various editions in the author's lifetime, and a further edition, with certain
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