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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1AND VIOLIN MAKERS
3Paris. Born 1827, Mirecourt, died 1887. Has left many useful instruments, chiefly of Stradivari pattern, which are rising in value. Sides sometimes appear rather deep. He made some excellent violoncellos.
5MÖCKEL. — Nineteenth century. A Berlin family established in Berlin, Dresden, and elsewhere. One of them, Otto, used a label with his portrait upon it.
7MOINEL, CHARLES.—Paris. Born 1866. Succeeded Cherpitel.
9MOITESSIER, LOUIS.—Mirecourt. Worked to about 1825 and made many instruments. Examples seen by writer were of mediocre workmanship.
11MÖNNIG.—Markneukirchen. A family of nineteenth century makers. About half a dozen of them are mentioned.
13MONTADE, GREGORIO.—Cremona; to about 1730. The work is after the pattern of Stradivari, but is little known amongst connoisseurs.
15MONTAGNANA, DOMENICO. — Venice; to about 1745 or later. A maker of very high rank, about whom very little is certainly known. He was probably born in Venice, and the stories that he worked under either Stradivari or Amati may be dismissed as being unsupported by any evidence worthy of the name. The earliest date seen by the writer in an authentic ticket is 1715, and appears in a fine violin of rather small size, photographs of which appeared in the Strad magazine in June, 1912. Whoever was his instructor, he seems to have asserted his individuality from the outset. In a few of the violins there is more than a suspicion of a leaning
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