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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, 1875
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1it to the negligence or unskilfulness of the present makers and those of late years: but I dare affirm that the fault lies principally with the musicians and amateurs themselves, for reasons which I shall proceed to state.
3All 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 Breslau, 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 Fritzsche of Leipzig, Dürfel of Altenburg, Schmidt of Cassell, and many others.
5These 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.
7Rauch, of Breslau, has also turned out very good violins;
9* Otto, in the more recent edition of his work (Jena, 1828), invariably spells this name Stainer, and modern writers also.—Tr.
10† Sometimes spelt Stadelmann.—Tr.
11‡ Spelt Jaug in the 1828 edition.—Tr.
12|| Sometimes spelt: Widhalm.—Tr.
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