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Chats to violin students on how to study the violin, 1895
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 66. See the scan on archive.org.
1a different class of work, having studied with Amati, whose influence on his work is very pronounced. Some of his violins can easily be mistaken for those of the Italian school.
3The next and most important name among the German makers is Jacobus Stainer. He was born about 1620 and ranks second only to the great Italian school. Some early German and even English fiddle fanciers are said to have preferred his work even to the Cremonese. He is supposed to have travelled to Cremona and studied there with Amati and afterwards in Venice; but there is not much reliable information on this point. Though the workmanship is thoroughly German his model is quite original, and his unceasing patience in the selection of the wood and the supremely beautiful varnish he used, have helped to make his violins of the value they now are. In the formation of the sound-hole and scroll he followed his own lead, entirely different from the German. That he went to Italy is indisputable and his work shows that this had an immense effect upon his style, but whether he ever studied with any of the great makers is very doubtful. He died in great poverty, although he worked very many years and very hard. No maker has had more copyists, especially among German and English makers, among whom Withalm, born in Nuremburg about the middle of last century, stands first, his wood and varnish nearly equalling Stainer's.
5The Kloz family, a large one, all flourished about the beginning of last century, the most important member
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