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Violin tone and violin makers, 1916
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1AND VIOLIN MAKERS
3Johann Georg Thir was established in Vienna until after 1790, and made a good many instruments. Varnish dark brown or dark red. Geissenhof was for a time in partnership with him. Another good maker of the name was Mathias, who was a brother of J. G. Thir and worked until about 1795.
5Thomassin, Louis.—Paris. Born 1855. A clever bow-maker. Voirin style.
7Thompson.—London; late eighteenth century. There were several makers, or rather instrument dealers, in business in St. Paul's Churchyard. Instruments vary, and the violoncellos are often better than the violins. The latter are generally a sort of mixture of the patterns of Stainer and Amati, with red or yellow varnish, and of no particular character.
9Thouvenel, Henry.—Mirecourt; about 1850-1860. Strad pattern; yellow varnish.
11Thumardt.—Straubing, Munich; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Eight or more makers are named. One of them, Johann Stephan, worked in Straubing until 1817, and his work is of some value.
13Tiefenbrunner.—Mittenwald, Munich; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A family who must not be confounded with the Tieffenbruckers who were viol makers. Eight or nine Tiefenbrunners have been engaged in the manufacture of stringed instruments, chiefly zithers. Amongst those who made violins Johann Caspar, who died about 1769, and worked in Mittenwald, seems to be best known.
15Tielke, Joachim.—Hamburg. Born 1641; died 1719. Is said to have made violins, but the only instruments seen by the writer were of the lute or viol class.
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