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1The Lowendall Star Works are located at No. 121 Reichenberger strasse, Berlin, whither they were removed from Dresden in 1889. The business was originally established by Mr. Lowenthal, Sr. as a retail music store in Berlin in 1866, and, soon afterwards, Mr. Lowenthal began to manufacture the instruments he sold. His efforts in this line led to the building up of a large business, so that now Mr. Lowenthal has a spacious four-story factory, employs a large force of workmen and keeps in stock several hundred dozens of fine violins as well as every other accessory to stringed instruments. The Lowendall violins have everywhere met with the highest praise. At the London Inventions Exhibit they were awarded a silver medal, and at the Bologna, Italy, exposition the same award was given them.
3Mr. Louis Lowenthal, Sr., proprietor of the Lowendall Star Works, is famed as one of the most expert judges, and one of the highest authorities on old violins and stringed instruments of the present day. He is in his fifty-fifth year and is a man of vigorous mental and physical powers. Mr. Lowenthal's genius asserted itself at quite an early age. He displayed a considerable talent for music when quite a child, and at the age of seven years, constructed a violin—or his idea of one—made from an unplanned wooden board, and from similar material making the neck, pegs, etc. The strings he made of strong cotton thread, and the bow he made as best he could, securing a supply of hair from the tails of horses in the street. Mr. Lowenthal's father, in order to develop his son's musical talent, bought him a real instrument maker, Bausch; and, later on, at Berlin, he got connected with the well-known violin-bow maker, Heinrich Knopf, under both of whom he took the opportunity of studying violin and bow-making. In the year 1866 he opened the retail music store in Berlin, and from that time to the present, his business has grown until it has reached its present large dimensions. Soon afterwards, Mr. Lowenthal began manufacturing musical instruments, and laid the foundation for the splendid reputation that he now enjoys. One incident in his career is worthy of mention in this notice. Calling on Wieniawski one day during a visit to St. Petersburg, he was invited to accompany the celebrated violinist in order to meet Davidoff, the renowned 'cello player, who was attending a rehearsal for a concert, which was shortly going to be given at the Winter Palace and at which Rubinstein was expected to be present. Mr. Lowenthal entered the concert room with Wieniawski. In a corner of the room sat Rubinstein at the piano, resting and meditating. Presently the Russian lion rose from the instrument and Mr. Lowenthal had the honor of being presented to the celebrated pianist, as a Berlin musical instrument manufacturer. Rubinstein was very gracious and invited Mr. Lowenthal to his house to show him a double-bass that he had to sell, and which proved to be nothing less than a Strad. bass, worth some thousands of rubles. During a stay of six weeks in Russia, Mr. Lowenthal made many friends among the leading musicians, and from them
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