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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1those of Mirecourt; and it is claimed for these German seats of manufacture that the wood is not subjected to any artificial preparation. As in Mirecourt, high priced violins are also made in the German depôts.
3This wholesale character of fiddle manufacture in Germany appears to date from a comparatively early period, for, in Stainer's time, there were in the small town of Füssen alone a number of makers who worked exclusively for Cremonese firms of that period. In this same place, from about 1750 to 1800, there were other makers of second and third-rate importance, who had, however, a more independent position, such as Gugemos and John Anthony Gedler, about 1757; Waldaner and Petz, 1770; John Benedict Gedler, about 1796; Franz Stoss, from 1750 to 1798; and Ruf, who did for Stainer, in the way of research, what Vuillaume and Lombardini did for Stradivari. There was, about the same period, Thomas Edlinger and one Haff in Augsburg; Knitting in Mittenwald; Simon, in Salzburg, in 1722. Jacob Weiss and one Mayerhoff in the same town about 1740, and G. Ferdinand Wenger—also in Salzburg—about 1761. These makers all supplied Stainers as well as Stradivaris and other great models. There was also a maker named Hulinsky, in Prague, who shared the renown of the Eberles and Hungers already mentioned. In Vienna, Bernhard and Martin Stoss (born in Füssen), Mathias and George Thin, Savitzky, a Pole, Schmied, a Bohemian, and Stauffer, all maintained, in much the same manner, the reputation of the German makers, such as it was. In Munich, Joseph Paul Crista, 1730, Matthew John Kolditz, 1748, and in Meran, Matthew Groll, 1800, are simply names whose bearers no doubt
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