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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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1knows two of his violoncellos which have been respectively sold for £30 and £40 within a few years.
3SMITH, WILLIAM, London, 1771.
5SOLOMON, —— pupil of Bocquay, a good French artiste.
7SPEILER, —— 18th Century.
9STADELMANS, DANIEL, 1744, Vienna.
11STADELMANS, JOHANN JOSEPH, Vienna, 1784. Fame speaks very highly of this maker, who closely imitated Jacob Steiner and ranks next to him among the German makers.
13STEINER, JACOB, of Absom in the Tyrol, born about 1620, date of death not known, but at about the age of seventy retired to a Convent.
15See separate chapter on this celebrated artiste.
17STOSS, FRANCIS, Bavaria.
19STORIONI, LORENZO, Cremona, living in 1782, said to be the last of the great Cremona makers. Forster says his instruments resemble those of Joseph Guarnerius,
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