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

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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916

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1eighteenth century. Scarce. A relative named Santino Lavazza worked about the same time.
3LE BLANC.—Paris; about 1800. Brown instruments, branded with the name.
5LE CLERC, J. N.—Paris; eighteenth century.
7LEEB.—Pressburg, Vienna. A family of makers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The best known is Andreas Carl, a good workman. Chiefly Stradivari pattern.
9LEGNANI, LUIGI.—Naples; circa 1760. Pupil of Zosimo Bergonzi.
11LEIDOLFF.—Vienna; seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. There were several members of the family. Their work is of the Stainer school.
13LEISSMÜLLER, CHRISTOPHER and MARTIN.—Krünn, near Mittenwald; eighteenth century. Two makers who have made useful violins of good tone.
15LE JEUNE.—Paris; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A numerous family of makers of no particular eminence.
17LEMBÖCK, GABRIEL.—Budapest. Died 1892. A good maker and excellent repairer.
19LENOBLE, AUGUSTE.—Paris. Died 1895. A fine bow-maker. Worked first with François Peccatte.
21LENTZ, JOHANN NICHOLAUS.—London; early nineteenth century. A Tyrolese. Instruments date from Chelsea. The work is passable, but specimens are not often seen. He was first employed as a butler, and became friendly with J. F. Lott.
23LE PILEUR, PIERRE.—Paris; 1750.

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