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Famous violinists and fine violins : historical notes, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1896
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1mination can be properly applied to so miserable an abode—the poor little child was left entirely alone, attached by coarse strings to an old arm-chair. And as he was obliged to go out nearly every day to get his scanty living by giving a few lessons in music, or by obtaining any other musical work that offered him the chance of pocketing a few kreutzers, the little girl was left in this precarious position for many hours at a time. The effect was that she became very delicate, and at three years of age she could not walk at all. In the meantime she had been christened Elizabeth Gertrude.
3As the poor father was very glad to procure any kind of work that would enable him to relieve his dire distress, he sometimes undertook to repair the instruments of the first and second violins of the Cassel orchestra. He understood pretty well the mechanism and structure of the violin, a subject on which German violinists have always prided themselves; and history reports that he was not an unskilful workman.
5In those days there were not, as now, those hundreds of pianos to be tuned; nor was much to be done by selling the copyright of a song, or some small composition for stringed instruments. And repairing a violin, which in many cases only required cleaning, and a new bridge, a properly adjusted sound-post, and perhaps a little mixture of soap and chalk to make the pegs work easily, was
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