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

22 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 28. See the scan on archive.org.

1CONTRERAS, JOSEPH, Madrid, 1746.
2An excellent maker, who was particularly celebrated for his copies of Stradivarius.
4D.
6DARDELLI, PIETRO, Mantua, about 1500.
7Made good rebeccs, violas and viols da gamba. Fetis mentions some of them as still existing.
9DECOMBRE, AMBROISE, Tournay, 1700.
10to 1735, was said to be one of the pupils of Stradivarius and made some good instruments of his pattern.
12DESPONS, ANTOINE, Paris,—one of the good French Makers, about 1725.
14DICKENSON, EDWARD, 1754.
15DICKSON, JOHN, Cambridge, 1779
16DIEHL, NICHOLAUS, Darmstadt, 17th Century.
18DITTON,——London, about 1720. one of two readings
19DITTON,—London, about 1720. one of two readings
21DODD, THOMAS, Son of Edward Dodd of Sheffield, and who died in London in 1810, at the great age of 105 years (see Bow Makers). Thomas Dodd's instruments have had considerable reputation, but it is

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