LASKE, Joseph Anton.—Prague. Died 1805. Said to have been a fine workman. Little known in this country. Some of the labels have an ornamental border.
LAVAZZA, Antonio Maria.—Milan; early eighteenth century. Scarce. A relative named Santino Lavazza worked about the same time.
LE BLANC.—Paris; about 1800. Brown instruments, branded with the name.
LE CLERC, J. N.—Paris; eighteenth century.
LEEB.—Pressburg, Vienna. A family of makers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The best known is Andreas Carl, a good workman. Chiefly Stradivari pattern.
LEGNANI, Luigi.—Naples; circa 1760. Pupil of Zosimo Bergonzi.
LEIDOLFF.—Vienna; seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. There were several members of the family. Their work is of the Stainer school.
LEISSMÜLLER, Christopher and Martin.—Krünn, near Mittenwald; eighteenth century. Two makers who have made useful violins of good tone.
LE JEUNE.—Paris; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A numerous family of makers of no particular eminence.
LEMBÖCK, Gabriel.—Budapest. Died 1892. A good maker and excellent repairer.