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- 1 2 Freaks of Disordered Thought, by Alan Coggins, The Strad (October 2003) ISSN 0039-2049
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- ↑ Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart (The Violin and Lute Makers From the Middle Ages to the Present), by Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff (1922) OCLC 2110375
- ↑ Ältere und neuere Literatur zur Musikinstrumentenkunde, by John Henry van der Meer, Acta Musicologica, Vol. 51, Fasc. 1 (Jan. – Jun., 1979), pgs. 34–35, published by the de:International Musicological Society (accessed: 18/10/2013), OCLC 4892830290, ISSN 0001-6241