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British Violin Makers (Paperback)
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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. Twenty-six 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. From Morris's narrative, one gets a feel for the
importance of the craftsman and his materials. He explains the
various types of wood and varnish used, and how they, along with
the arch and contour, work together to produce a specific tone.
Speaking with fervor, the way a wine connoisseur does when
describing a certain vintage, Morris compares and contrasts the
quality of British instruments to that of other nations.
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