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The Violinist's Guide (1916), 1916
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1THE VIOLINIST'S GUIDE
3Warranted Bass and Double Bass Viols
4Manufactured and Sold by
5D. M. & L. Dearborn.
6(Opposite the American House, Concord, N. H.)
8These instruments were neither blocked nor lined. In shape they remind one of the old French instruments. One bass viol under inspection had a length of 32 inches, the upper bout was 14 inches wide and the lower bout 18 inches. The latter strikes one as being unusually wide. While the scroll is well cut yet it has no style. The sound holes are well cut and are in keeping with the outline and model of the instrument. The model is flat, and the corners are long.
10A 'Cello bearing the name
12Benjamin Philbrick, 1800
14written on the back is of American make.
16The body of the instrument is long and slender with inner C curves of Brescian character. The model is high; varnish a dark brown, and a painted purfling runs around the top and back.
18The length of the body is 31 inches. The top and bottom are well rounded and the corners are short. In cutting the scroll the maker evidently tried to copy Crehore, but was not able to impart the style of the latter to his work. The sound holes are long and narrow and are grotesquely snake-like in form.
20Joseph Darracutt, Milford, New Hampshire, 1809.
21William Darracutt, Milford, New Hampshire, 1827. A large three string bass viol showed fine workmanship. The top was pine.
22William Green, Medway, Mass. A 'Cello dated 1801 is known, and is of high model; another is dated 1805; another bears the ticket:
24Bass Viols Made and Sold by
25Green & Allen, Medway, Mass., 1817.
27In the Boston city directory for 1798 appear the names Bent and Green, musical instrument makers. In 1800 the name Green disappears and W. & A. Bent appears and continues until 1807.
29Joseph Minot of Westminister, Mass., made and repaired bass viols. Number 7 was made in 1818, and number 26 bears the date of August 20, 1828. The label runs:
31Bass Viols Made and Repaired by
32Joseph Minot, Westminister, Mass.
33Date, Year, No.
35Z. L. Hodges made viols in Taunton, Mass. No. 51, a 'Cello, was made in 1830. No. 71, a bass, was made in 1835.
37There was what may be termed the Brattleboro, Vermont, group of makers. These were: Woodbury & Burdett, Woodbury & Kibling, J. Woodbury, Benjamin Conant.
39The instruments of these makers all showed careful workmanship of the French Mirecourt character. The varnish is of a dark brown, a reddish brown, or a yellow brown. Woodbury & Burdett and Conant made violins as well as basses.
41William Phipps, of Franklin, Mass. A label runs:
43Bass Viols Made and Sold by
44William Phipps, Franklin, Mass. 1830.
46Moses A. Tewkesbury, Chester, New Hampshire, 1841, made large and small basses. The workmanship was excellent. In the large basses the back and ribs are heavy, after Prescott's style; the top is of pine.
48The small basses or 'Cellos are not purfled, the scroll is large; and the workmanship is better than Prescott's.
50John G. Pickering, Greenland, New Hampshire. A Pickering bass owned by J. Norton, of Lynn, was made like a Prescott. He made a very artistic guitar in 1832, for Ostinelli.
52The work of A. B. Bates & Co., of Fairfield, Maine, is characterized by fine workmanship. An instrument bears the following label:
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