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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1VIOLIN TONE
3Obtained various medals, and died in 1858. ERNST MAUCOTEL, born in Mirecourt in 1867; assisted Hippolyte Chrétien-Silvestre, with whom he became partner in 1900.
5MAURIZI, FRANCESCO.—Appignano; eighteenth century. Used sometimes a large oval ticket with ornamental border. Varnish brown.
7MAUSSIELL, LEONHARD.—Nuremberg. Born 1685, died after 1760. A careful maker. Usually copied Stainer. Some of the fiddles have lion-heads. Varnish yellow, or yellow-brown.
9MAYR.—Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Three or four of the name worked in different parts of Germany (Salzburg, Munich, Schönbach). The best known is ANDREAS FERDINAND, a careful workman, who copied Stainer, and worked in Salzburg until about 1750.
11MAYSON, WALTER H.—Manchester. Born 1835, died 19—. Has made a great number of violins and other instruments of excellent finish, some of which are elaborately carved. He wrote a book on violin making, which was published in the "Strad Library."
13MÉDARD.—A numerous family of makers established in Nancy and Paris in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. There were upwards of a dozen of them. The best known is François, son of Claude Médard. Born at Nancy, he worked chiefly in Paris, where he flourished until about 1715, or later. The work is very pretty, and the wood frequently handsome. Light red varnish of very clear texture. Arching rather flat.
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