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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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1Italian style and produced some very superior examples.
3SCHORN, JACOB, Salzbourg.
5SCHORN, JOHANN, Inspruck, 1688.
7SCHOTT, MARTIN, Prague.
9SHAW, —— London, 1656.
11SIMPSON, JOHN, London, 1790.
13SIMPSON, J. and J., son of the above.
15SIMON, —— Salzbourg, 1722.
17SIMON, —— Paris.
19SMITH, HENRY, London, 1629. This may be a celebrated maker of viols, &c., mentioned by Mace, 1676, as one of the best then known.
21SMITH, THOMAS, London, 1756 to 1799. This well known maker was a pupil of Peter Wamsley. His violoncellos are of the Steiner model, and some of them possess considerable power, and were formerly highly esteemed, but they are now considered to be deficient in quality and wanting in the rich fine tone of the Italian artistes. Notwithstanding, they are still favourites in the country; the editor
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