MOUGENOT-GAUCHÉ.—Contemporary. A manufacturer of violins on a considerable scale. His best grade fiddles are useful instruments and mostly after the pattern of the “Messie” Stradivari.
MUCCHI, Antonio.—Modena. Died 1883. His violins and violoncellos are fair examples of modern Italian work. Varnish generally yellow or yellow-brown.
MÜLLER.—Several German makers of this name are known. Some worked in Markneukirchen in the last century. Others in Schönbach.
NADOTTI, Joseph.—Piacenza; eighteenth century, latter half.
NANCY, Jean Théodore.—Paris; to about 1800. Chiefly known as a clever repairer.
NEMESSÁNYI, Samuel Felix.—Budapest; circa 1850-75. Work little known in this country, but he was an exceptionally clever copyist of Guarneri del Gesù and used good varnish.
NEUMÄRKER.—Nineteenth century. Several makers of the name worked in Schöneck.
NEUNER.—Mittenwald; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A very numerous family of makers, several of whom bore the Christian name Matthias. The second of that name died about 1830, and in 1812 founded the well-known firm of Neuner and Hornstainer, one of the largest manufacturing houses in Germany. Ludwig Neuner, born 1840, and a member of the firm, worked for a time with J. B. Vuillaume in Paris. A clever workman, he, in 1879, gained a medal in Berlin.
NEVEU, Charles.—Paris. Born 1863. A skilful copyist. Chiefly Stradivari pattern.
NEWTON, Isaac.—London. Died 1825. Worked for Betts.