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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1but he was an exceptionally clever copyist of Guarneri del Gesù and used good varnish.
3NEUMÄRKER.—Nineteenth century. Several makers of the name worked in Schöneck.
5NEUNER.—Mittenwald; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A very numerous family of makers, several of whom bore the Christian name MATTHIAS. The second of that name died about 1830, and in 1812 founded the well-known firm of NEUNER AND HORNSTAINER, one of the largest manufacturing houses in Germany. LUDWIG NEUNER, born 1840, and a member of the firm, worked for a time with J. B. Vuillaume in Paris. A clever workman, he, in 1879, gained a medal in Berlin.
7NEVEU, CHARLES.—Paris. Born 1863. A skilful copyist. Chiefly Stradivari pattern.
9NEWTON, ISAAC. — London. Died 1825. Worked for Betts.
11NICOLAS.—Paris. See FOURRIER.
13NICOLAS.—Mirecourt; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A well-known family, the principal member of which is known the world over as "didier" Nicolas. He was born in 1757 and died in 1833. His early personal work is good and well finished. The violins are built somewhat upon Stradivari lines, but cannot be described as copies of that maker. They are generally of rather large pattern and but slightly arched. Tone powerful, and the varnishes, a reddish-yellow or yellow-brown, of good quality. Some of the violoncellos are exceptionally good. There is no doubt that these earlier examples possess considerable merit, but in later years Nicolas employed a very large
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