FELDEN, M., Vienna, about 1550. Maker of Viols.
FICHTOLD, Hans, about 1612. Lute-maker.
FICHTL, Martin, Vienna, 1757. Large pattern, good varnish, wood of excellent quality.
FICKER, Johann Christian, Cremona, 1720. Said to have lived in the midst of the greatest makers the world has had; if so, he certainly did not make himself acquainted with the art of Violin-making as understood in Cremona. His instruments may have been made at Mittenwald, and dated from Cremona.
FICKER, Johann Gotlieb, Cremona, 1789.
FISCHER, Zacharie, Würtzburg, 1730. This maker adopted the practice of baking the wood for the manufacture of Violins.
FISCHER, Anton, Vienna, died 1879.
FREY, Hans, Nuremberg and Bologna, born about 1440. A celebrated maker of Lutes. He was the father-in-law of Albert Dürer. John Evelyn, in his Diary, 1645, after speaking in praise of the cheese and sausages of Bologna, refers to the great celebrity of the Lutes by the old makers of that city, and mentions Hans Frey. He says they "were of extraordinary price, and the workmen were chiefly Germans."
FRITZCHE, ——, Leipsic, about 1780-1810.
GEDLER, Johann A., Fussen, about 1750.