Biography:George Saunders

Biographical notes
 George Saunders was a dance fiddler and multi-instrumentalist who had a music shop in Providence, Rhode Island, in the first half of the 19th century where he sold instruments and sheet music. As a self-professed "Professor of Music and Dancing", he also gave lessons. Saunders published a regionally influential violin tutor, New and Complete Instructor for the Violin, in Boston in 1847. The tutor sold for seventy-five cents when first issued, and went through several editions, later being issued by Oliver Ditson Co. as "Saunders' Self-instructing School for the Violin." Saunders boasted that his own method was better than any except those by (Europeans) Sphor and Campagnoli, yet he borrowed much from Ludwig Spohr's (1784-1859) teaching (School of the Violin, 1839).