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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1VIOLIN TONE
3contemporary. A clever workman in various styles, including "modern antiques."
5HEL, PIERRE JOSEPH.—Lille. Born 1842. Instruments of his workmanship are excellent in every detail. Form, material, and varnish are all most praiseworthy, and he occupies a prominent place amongst makers of modern times. He obtained several medals. Instruments of an inferior grade, but not of his own workmanship, are of the "trade class," and of no particular account, although occasionally sold as genuine. They bear, or should bear, a distinctive label. The business is now carried on by a son (Pierre), who is well known as a dealer.
7HELD, JOHANN JOSEPH.—Enskirchen, Beuel. Died 1904. A clever workman, who obtained several medals, and seems to have had some theories of his own, one of which was impregnating the wood of his instruments. He was patronised by Ole Bull.
9HELLMER.—Several makers of the name worked in Prague in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The family is supposed to have come from Füssen. In this country the best known is KARL JOSEPH, who died in 1811, and was a pupil of Eberle. There seem to be a good many spurious labels about containing the device used by him, a lion holding an instrument of the lute species. Red-brown varnish, careful finish, and medium arching. The general characteristics of his work belong to the German school. His father, JOHANN GEORG, who died in Prague in 1770, made high-built fiddles of the Kloz type.
11HENOCQ.—Paris; eighteenth century. Two makers of the name worked in Paris.
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