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Having played violins from many manufacturers, Henley sought to compile a comprehensive list evaluating violin and bow makers. After Henley's death in 1957, dealer Cyril Woodcock (1897–1980) [ 1 ] completed and published the work based on Henley's unfinished notes.
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Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin (1841–1923) was a French maker of violins, violas, cellos, basses and bows. He was an Officier de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts and won gold and silver medals at the Paris Exhibitions in 1878, 1889, and 1900.
In the Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers, William Henley noted "the critical and judicious labour of this eminent maker deserves universal admiration," and that Mennégand's instruments possess a "tonal quality establishing the real desideratum in bright sonority." [11] Charles Mennégand died on 9 January 1885 in Villers-Cotterets ...
Karel Jalovec (17 June 1892 in Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire) was a Czechoslovak musicologist who compiled three reference books on violins and violin makers and a two-volume encyclopedia on violin makers.
For a number of years afterwards, at least as late as 1885, instruments bearing NFV labels were still produced from his workshop. A double bass by Georges Mougenot labeled from 1875, the year he took over the shop of NFV in Brussels, reads as the "Royal Maker of Liege". This double bass is a Vuillaume model but with a Mougenot label from Liege. [9]
An E. H. Roth violin, Guarneri copy, Markneukirchen 1930 It was a policy of the Roth workshop in the days of Ernst Heinrich I to manufacture different grades of instruments for different budgets. For this reason, but also due to the size of the workshop's production and the many decades of its operation, the quality of Roth violins varies ...
The Art of Violin Playing Books 1 & 2, Carl Flesch. Edited by Eric Rosenblith. Carl Fischer Music ISBN 0-8258-2822-8 and ISBN 0-8258-6590-5; The Armenian Bowing Art, Anahit Tsitsikian,Published by “Edit Print” print house Yerevan, 2004.(in Russian) The Art of Violin Playing, Daniel Melsa, Foulsham & Co. Ltd.