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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1AND VIOLIN MAKERS
3MARINO, BERNARDINO.—Rome; eighteenth century and early nineteenth. Roughish work of Tecchler style. Varnish red-brown.
5MARQUIS DE L'AIR. See CLAUDOT.
7MARSHALL, JOHN.—London; eighteenth century. Wamsley school of work. Stainer pattern. Labels usually in Latin. In some of his tickets there is a mild attempt at humour, "Good beef a penny a pound, but trades all very bad."
9MARTIN.—Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A pretty numerous family working chiefly in Markneukirchen, several of whom bore the Christian names "John Adam."
11MARTIN.—Paris; nineteenth century. There were several of the name. They were principally dealers and repairers.
13MAST.—Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Mirecourt family. JEAN LAURENT worked in Paris in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Instruments branded. JOSEPH LAURENT, a neat workman, settled in Toulouse. Rather high model. Pretty wood. Yellow or red varnish. He was a skilful repairer.
15MAUCOTEL.—Mirecourt, Paris, London; nineteenth century. A well-known family of good workmen. CHARLES, born Mirecourt, 1807, worked in Paris under Gand. Came to London in 1844, and after working for Davis established himself in Rupert Street. Retired to France in 1860. Chiefly copied Stradivari. Red varnish. CHARLES ADOLPHE, his brother, worked in Paris for Vuillaume until 1844, and then set up for himself. Made a considerable number of copies of excellent workmanship and tone.
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