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    Luthier (redirect from Violin maker)
    it came to be used in French for makers of most bowed and plucked stringed instruments such as members of the violin family (including violas, cellos...
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  • The Violin Maker is a 1915 American short silent drama film directed by Lon Chaney, written by Milton M. Moore and starring Lon Chaney and Gretchen Lederer...
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    come from chemical preservatives applied by loggers to the wood they sold. As well, the violin makers applied varnishes to their instruments. Potassium borate...
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    Stainer of the Tyrol, and Antonio Stradivari, with many makers at the time and since following their templates. The origin of the violin family is obscure...
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  • The Violin Maker of Cremona is a 1909 silent film drama short directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Herbert Prior and Mary Pickford. It was produced...
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  • Dictionary of Violin Makers by Cecie Stainer (2001, Hardcover, reprint) ISBN 9780722260333 The Brompton's Book of Violin and Bow Makers, John Dilworth...
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    possibilities for the violin's origins, such as northern or western Europe. The first makers of violins probably borrowed from various developments of the Byzantine...
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    a family of violin makers. Members of the Klotz (or Kloz) family have made violins in Mittenwald, Bavaria from the mid-17th century to the present. Matthias...
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    instruments bear labels implying a relationship to Cremona—the home of the renowned violin makers Amati, Stradivari, and Guarneri—however no evidence exists...
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    Giuseppe Guarneri (category Giuseppe Guarneri violins)
    rival violin maker (actually it was one of the Lavazza brothers in Milan to whom this occurred), and even the unlikely fiction that he made violins in prison...
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    potential damage. The violin construction process is personally followed by the violin maker in every phase, from the tree to the finished instrument:...
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    Mittenwald (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    feature of the area for at least two thousand years. Mittenwald is famous for the manufacture of violins, violas and cellos which began in the mid-17th...
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    collaboration with the Darmstadt violin maker, Franz-Ernst Peschke adapting the pick-up system so that the bodies of existing violins could be used as a base....
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  • The Violin Maker of Mittenwald (German: Der Geigenmacher von Mittenwald) is a 1950 West German drama film directed by Rudolf Schündler and starring Willy...
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  • Guarneri (redirect from Guarneri violin)
    established in Mantua by 1683, where he worked both as a musician and a violin maker. His instruments are generally finer than his father's, but are rare...
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    Amati (redirect from Amati violin)
    the last name of a family of Italian violin makers who lived at Cremona from about 1538 to 1740. Their importance is considered equal to those of the...
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  • Benjamin Banks (1727 – 1795) was an English violin-maker. Banks was originally apprenticed to his uncle William Hutoft. Banks seems to have occupied Hutoft's...
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    The violin family of musical instruments was developed in Italy in the 16th century. At the time the name of this family of instruments was viole da braccio...
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  • violin makers (1957) English edition: Italian violin makers OCLC 2428954 German edition: Italienische Geigenbauer, translated by G. Wiener The violin...
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  • Violin authentication is the process of determining the maker and date of a violin. Multiple references may be required to assist in the process of authentication...
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  • 1978), known as A. E. Smith, was an English-born Australian violin and viola maker whose violins and violas are prized for their 'excellence of tone' and...
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  • well-known violin maker working in London. He apprenticed in the workshop of Peter Wamsley and produced fine violins, typically following the style of the Amatis...
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  • a violin-maker whose wife, Anna Rudolfi, is pregnant. Anna asks her servant Cesca to foretell her unborn child's future. Cesca cannot determine the future...
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    since the first violins were made. Some violins, called "bench-made" instruments, are made by a single individual, either a master maker or an advanced...
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    that five of the key voices in the film (the ventriloquist, the old woman, a parrot, the dummy and the girl) were his own. Makeup in the early days of...
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  • is a London-based violin maker, dealer, restorer and expert. Florian has dedicated his life to studying, restoring and making violins. After studying in...
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  • 1956) is a contemporary luthier and is widely regarded as one of the finest violin makers of his generation. He began his instrument making training at age...
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  • violin maker and founder of the firm W. E. Hill & Sons. The son of the violin maker Henry Lockey Hill, he came from a long tradition of violin makers...
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    (1810-1853) was a Danish violin maker who operated his own workshop in Copenhagen from 1846 and was granted status of court violin maker. Jacobsen was initially...
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    A Baroque violin is a violin set up in the manner of the baroque period of music. The term includes original instruments which have survived unmodified...
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