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Violins and violin makers. Biographical dictionary of the great Italian artistes, their followers and imitators, to the present time. With essays on important subjects connected with the violin, 1866
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1brownish yellow Varnish with a tinge of red, others deep red of a blackish tinge, Varnish not brilliant.
3BANKS, BENJAMIN, Son of the former, London, born 1754, died 1820.
5BANKS, JAMES and HENRY, Salisbury, other sons of the same. James is said to have been an excellent workman in his father's style, and dates about 1805.
7BARRETT, JOHN, London, about 1725. His labels state him to live at the Harp and Crown, in Picadilly. He made some good instruments, but did not purfle them. The author has seen a Violoncello by this maker which was everything that could be desired in the matter of tone. The wood and workmanship, however, were not equal to the tone, and this circumstance will probably partly account for the settled preference now given to the Italian instruments over all the old English makers.
9BARTON, GEORGE, London, died 1810.
11BEKMAN, SWENO, Stockholm, 1706.
13BELLOSIO, —— one of the Venetian makers, 18th Century.
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