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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1Friederich Scheinlein, born in 1710, in Langenfeld, in Franconia, was a violinist and, ultimately, a violin maker. Beginning with the repairs of instruments, he eventually made new ones, which were, in his time, much prized. His son, Joseph Michel Scheinlein, succeeded him and obtained a similar reputation. The tone of his instruments was full and pleasant, but though they were carefully made, they were too weak in the wood, and, as a result, neither tone nor instrument has proved very durable. His model was a large Stainer pattern, but he avoided the high arching which characterised that maker. He was born in 1751. Caspar Strnad, of Prague, somewhere about the middle of the eighteenth century, acquired a great reputation for his violins and violoncellos, of which he made many. One of his tickets is dated 1789. John Anthony Hænsel, a musician to the Duke of Schonburg, was also a maker, but his chief claim to notice lies in the circumstance that he is one of the many inventors of new models. In 1811 he published an account of it. The side curves were exactly in the middle of the instrument, the upper and lower portions of which, besides being thus made equal in length, were also of equal breadth. The bridge was placed in the centre. This invention went to the limbo which has received all the other modifications of the great Cremonese model. Gustavus Adolphus Wettengel was a maker at Neukirchen, in Saxony—a kind of German Mirecourt. His only claim to notice is that he wrote a book on violin making. Neukirchen and Klingenthal still furnish shoals of violins, or rather, instruments exactly resembling violins in shape, at prices even lower than
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