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A treatise on the structure and preservation of the violin and all other bow-instruments; together with an account of the most celebrated makers, and of the genuine characteristics of their instruments;, 1860
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1All those who have sought to attain a knowledge of good makers, will, besides the Cremonese and Steiner violins (of which I shall afterwards particularly treat), know how to appreciate those which have been made by Statelmann of Vienna, Jauch of Dresden, Withalm of Nuremberg, Hoffmann and Hunger of Leipzig, Buchstäder of Ratisbon, Hassert of Rudolstadt, Hassert of Eisenach, Klotz in the Tyrol, Rauch of Breslaw, Rauch of Würtzburg, Riess of Bamberg, Scheinlein of Langenfeld, near Erlangen, Fr. Ruppert of Erfurt, Francis Schonger, George Schonger, and Bachmann of Berlin, Straube of Berlin, Ulric Eberle of Prague, Charles Helmer of Prague, Samuel Fritzsch of Leipzig, Dürfel of Altenburg, Schmidt of Cassel, and many others.
3These makers have constructed their instruments with great care and skill; and a good unspoiled violin of Statelmann, of Vienna, is preferable to the best Tyrolese, as he used superior wood for the belly, and so admirably imitated Jacob Steiner's violins, that his own rank next to them in merit. After Statelmann comes Leopold Withalm, of Nuremberg, whose instruments so closely resemble Steiner's in their exterior, that it requires a great connoisseur to distinguish them from his.
5Rauch, of Breslaw, has also turned out very good violins; they have, however, a peculiar model, which neither resembles the Italian nor Steiner's. When unspoiled, they possess a round and powerful tone. The instruments made by his brother, at Würtzburg, are very much like them in shape and in all other respects. Both probably learned their business from the
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