David Colville

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By William Meredith Morris

He made excellent instruments on the models of Amati and Stradivari. I saw and tried one of his Amati copies some years ago. The wood was beautifully figured, and the tone sweet and silvery. He was a born artist, and had he led a less chequered career he would have turned out still better work. He visited New Zealand, Canada, and Australia by turns, and never seemed to settle down in one place or at one thing long. No label, but written in pencil across back: — DAVID COLVILLE, 1857

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