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Old violins and violin lore, 1900
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1OLD VIOLINS
3sentimental retreat into a monastery on account of his inconsolable grief for the death (?) of his wife. Had she been such an inestimable blessing, we might have expected her to have kept her gifted husband alive, managed his household more thriftily, rescued him from his debts, moved the hearts of his great patrons, or at least saved him from going mad.
5But, on the other hand, eight daughters were doubtless a trial to a couple who seemed always hard up; and the one son, born in 1657 and dying in infancy, as we learn from a tombstone in the Pilgrims' Church at Absam, deprived the great artificer of a coadjutor who might have been interested in building up the firm, and, perhaps, brought into it those business faculties without which the most brilliant abilities in every department of life so often make shipwreck.
7A certain Marcus Stainer, whose reputed date is about 1665–69, and who called himself citizen and violin-maker, it is difficult to connect with the illustrious Jacob, although he has been called his brother, and some say he was a monk and actually assisted Jacob Stainer in the workshop.
9The great violinist Tartini is said to have possessed two of this man's instruments, called Peter and Paul.
11Veracini, another eminent soloist, is said to have lost both of them in a shipwreck.
13Herr von Reimer possesses a violin with label "Markus Steiner Burger und Geigenmacher, anno 1659" (not a very clerical label, by the way), and that is all that can be ascertained about this other Stainer; for of
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