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British Violin Makers (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for British Violin MakersA reference to violin making, this work features a biographical dictionary of craftsmen, along with their signatures and marks. It features 26 photographs of selected makers and their instruments. It includes a foreword by music scholar Benjamin Hebbert that explains the role British violin makers played in the development of the instrument.
Full description- Publisher: Pelican Publishing Co
- Published: 10 January 2007
- Format: Paperback 400 pages
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- Categories: Music | String Instruments | Antiques & Collectables: Scientific & Musical Instruments
- ISBN 13: 9781589802209 ISBN 10: 1589802209
- Sales rank: 363,229
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Full description for British Violin Makers
This adaptable instrument's origins date back centuries. Celtic legends amuse us with mystical stories describing the creation of stringed music but practical history recounts that the modern birth of the violin occurred in Italy as early as the sixteenth century. The skilled craft of hand production was renowned in France as well but it is the British classic type and its history that W. Meredith Morris writes about in British violin makers. This classic, comprehensive reference to violin making, reprinted in 1920, features a biographical dictionary of craftsmen, along with many of their signatures and marks. 26 photographs of selected makers and their instruments help place the contemporary reader in the style of the period. Reverend Morris's second edition improves upon the first 1904 edition by adding more than 150 names to the list of makers who produced six violins or more. A new foreword by music scholar Benjamin Hebbert explains the important role British violin makers played in the development of the instrument.
