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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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1same maker. Riess, of Bamberg, has beautifully imitated Steiner, and even surpassed Rauch in quality of tone.
3Scheinlein, of Langenfeld, adopted a shape peculiar to himself; but his instruments are made too weak, and hence most of them have either given way or been spoiled in repairing: he was nevertheless celebrated forty or fifty years ago, and the majority of the instruments then used in the chapels were made by him.
5Buchstädter, of Ratisbon, has imitated the Cremonese makers. His instruments are rather flat than otherwise, and covered with a brown varnish. They are carefully constructed according to the principles of acoustics, and, had the bellies been made of the soft pine-wood found in Germany and Switzerland, instead of coarse-grained deal, the tone of them would have been less harsh. On this account they are not highly esteemed.
7Jauch, of Dresden, has manufactured very good violins on the model of the Cremonese, and displayed, in his beautiful and excellent workmanship, a thorough knowledge of the wood, and of the due proportions of strength required in the respective parts of the instrument. But his violins produce a very weak, squally tone, when they have been carelessly repaired: though even in this case they may be often restored and brought nearly to equal the Italian, by placing them in the hands of an experienced maker, possessing a knowledge of mathematics and acoustics, without which they will be completely spoiled.
9Martin Hoffmann, of Leipzig, who is chiefly known as a skilful lute-maker, has also constructed violins of an
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