Philadelphia School
Walter Ewing Colton
Philadelphia, 1846–1913
Violinist and self-taught amateur maker in New York c.1880. Influenced by George Gemunder. About 50 instruments completed of very high quality, in the style of Vuillaume and Gemunder. Presented Ole Bull with a copy of his Gasparo da Salò violin, rather frighteningly made from the wood of a 1743 Gabr\u{2026} — John Dilworth
Biographies
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John Dilworth+
COLTON, Walter Ewing Born 1846, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died 1913, Exeter, New Hampshire USA. Violinist and self-taught amateur maker in New York c.1880. Influenced by George Gemunder. About 50 instruments completed of very high quality, in the style of Vuillaume and Gemunder. Presented Ole Bull with a copy of his Gasparo da Salò violin, rather frighteningly made from the wood of a 1743 Gabrielli bass, according to Vannes. Vannes goes on to say that Gabrielli himself took the wood from a joist of the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Florence.
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Besserer amerikanischer Geigenmacher des 19. Jahrhunderts.
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