Anderson, John (I)

Anderson, John (I)

b.1829, d.1883

Aberdeen

Rev. W. Meredith Morris (1904): "He was born in 1829 and died in 1883. He said that he made about a thousand instruments of every description. If so, the majority of them must have vanished in a mysterious manner, for I have failed to discover one." The joke is on Meredith Morris, who was perhaps too hasty in his comments. In 1921 he changed his view "His model approximated to that of Stradivari, early period. The varnish is an oil one of an indifferent quality, in various colours. The tone is moderately powerful, but rather harsh in the two or three specimens see by me. Label: - "Made by / John Anderson / Aberdeen" 

Rev. W. Meredith Morris, British Violin Makers (1921)