John Dilworth
FORSTER, John Born circa. 1688 Kirkandrews, Longtown, died 1781 Brampton, Carlisle UK. Founder of the Forster dynasty of violin makers. Spinning wheel maker and gunsmith; occasional violin maker. Work unknown today but a description is found in Simon Andrew Forster’s History of the Violin (1864): ‘Rude and unfinished, model very high, resembling Stainer’. [Sandys & Forster]
George Hart
A maker of spinning-wheels and Violins.
William Meredith Morris
The first of this celebrated family to make fiddles. He made only an occasional instrument, on the Stainer model, and the work is rough and unfinished.
Cecie Stainer
b. about 1688, at Kirkandrews, on the Esk; d. Oct., 1781, Brampton, Cumberland. He was the first member of the celebrated family of Forsters to make violins. He early settled in Brampton, and was a maker of spinning-wheels, also a gunmaker; “a very ingenious man, and occasionally made fiddles.” A violin, said to be his, is made on a very high model, resembling that of Stainer, although the outline was somewhat similar to the pattern of an Amati, but the work was rude and unfinished.
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff
Der Stammvater der berühmten Geigenmacherfamilie seines Namens. Er
war eigentlich Spinnrad- und Büchsenmacher, aber in vielen Künsten beschlagen,
und machte gelegentlich auch Geigen. Ein ihm zugeschriebenes Instrument ist
sehr oberflächlich durchgeführt, hoch gewölbt und folgt einem Modell, das etwa
in der Mitte zwischen dem des Stainer und dem der Amatischule liegt.
