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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1VIOLIN TONE
3FREDERICK died in 1868, and worked chiefly for Davis, the well-known dealer in Coventry Street, for whom he made many clever copies of Italian instruments. He was also celebrated as a judge of old violins. JOHN FREDERICK LOTT II., who died in 1871, was the second son of J. F. Lott, senior, and is perhaps the best known of the family amongst violinists. His copies of del Gesù's fiddles are frequently remarkably clever imitations, and are still frequently mistaken for originals, though they are usually a trifle larger than the latter. He was almost equally successful in imitating Carlo Bergonzi, but examples of that pattern are rather scarce. But it may be said that he could, when he chose, imitate any of the great Cremonese masters with extraordinary fidelity. He was occasionally employed by J. B. Vuillaume, to whom he is said to have imparted information (little needed, one would have supposed) on the methods employed in making facsimiles of old Italian work.
5LOUIS, JEAN.—Geneva, Basle; about 1800-20.
7LOWENDALL, LOUIS.—Dresden, Berlin; nineteenth century. A well-known manufacturer of stringed instruments and accessories.
9LUPOT.—Eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. A celebrated French family of makers originating in Mirecourt. JEAN, the founder, died there in 1749, and was in no way distinguished. His son LAURENT worked in various places and died in Orleans between 1760-70. FRANCOIS LUPOT I. was son of Laurent, and worked chiefly in Orleans, but went to Paris in 1794 and died there in 1804. He was a good workman, vastly superior to his predecessors. His name is usually stamped on the back of his instruments
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