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Scan 189
Old violins and violin lore, 1900
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1CHAPTER XIII
3VIOLINS AT MIRECOURT, MITTENWALD, AND MARKNEUKIRCHEN
5MIRECOURT
7MIRECOURT in Lorraine has the glory of being associated from so early a date as 1566 with the Cremona workshops.
9Andrew Amati, who made six small fiddles for Charles IX. about that time, employed Nicolas Renauld of Nancy, who was a pupil of the celebrated Mirecourt lutist Tywersus, to assist him in finishing these important court orders, which did so much to establish the supremacy of the "petit violon" over the crowd of competing viols which then held the popular ear, and, as we have seen, died very hard.
11The great princes of Lorraine occupied a castle of pleasure called Ravenel, at a short distance from Mirecourt.
13These accomplished noblemen, touched with Florentine culture, often made excursions into Lombardy, and delighted in the refinements of the Italian principalities and duchies.
15They brought back with them pictures, ironwork, laces, musical instruments.
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