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Scan 193
Old violins and violin lore, 1900
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A town on its own line is one of the directory's headings. That is where the town on a maker's page comes from.
1OLD VIOLINS
3to the studious and admirable labours of Miss Stainer. Her booklet is entitled "Violin Makers," and it forms one of the music primers of an educational series issued by Novello & Co.
5MITTENWALD.
7In old days Mittenwald, quaintest of Bavarian towns, with its frescoed houses and its picturesque river-side, for it is on the banks of the dear Isar, overshadowed by the Wetterstein and Kurwändel mountains, was a town of considerable importance from very early days as the halting-place for the Romans on their way to the Danube.
9It long retained its peculiar caravanserai character, which resulted in the establishment of the handy mart or Mittenwald fair, for which in more recent times the place was chiefly famous. After the removal of the fair to Bozen, the importance of Mittenwald began to decline; trade and commerce suddenly seemed to have made unto themselves wings, until one Matthias Klotz, who in his boyhood is said to have been apprenticed to no less a person than the great Nicolas Amati, settled at Mittenwald, and wrote up outside his house: "Matthias Klotz, Geigen Macher, im jahr 1684." The prime hazel and maple, to be found in the Wetterstein hills, is of splendid quality, and the woods, then close up to the town, were full of old trees.
11Thither, before the days of Matthias, was wont to come a dreamy, ill-regulated sort of person, who excited
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