Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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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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1BINTERNAGLÈ, —— Gotha, 18th Century.
2This maker was a German imitator of the Cremona Violins, and is said to have been very successful.
4BOCQUAY, JAQUES, Paris, about 1620.
5A very good maker, and highly esteemed in France.
7BODIO, —— Venezia, 18th Century.
9BOLLES, ——
10An early English Lute and Viol Maker. Mace, 1675, says "one bass of Bolles, I have known valued at £100," equal to at least £600 of our present money.
12BORELLI, ANDREAS, Parma, 1740.
14BOULLAINGER, —— London.
15A careful maker, who first worked for others, and now on his own account.
17BREMEISTER, JAN., Amsterdam, 1707.
19BROSCHI, CARLO, Parma, 1744.
21BRETON (Le) Paris.
23BROWN MES, born 1670, died 1834.
24and
25BROWN, JAMES, son of do., born 1786, died 1860. Both good workmen, but without any speciality.

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