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The arts and crafts book of the worshipful Guild of violin-makers of Markneukirchen, from the year 1677 to the year 1772, 1894
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1ing, inn-keeping, and such other trades as the locality offered, should not be neglected.
3But the living and work-rooms in the master violin-maker's house, not devoted to his mere trade, were entirely at his disposal, as they chanced to suit him for the warehousing of materials and perfected instruments, and for the composition of varnish.
5Taking, therefore, these circumstances into consideration, the non-ownership of a house by a postulant for the mastership appears to have been regarded as a social stigma and disqualification for membership of the guild in many of the recorded transactions and deliberations of the assembled masters.
7The banquet given on his admission by every new master, at which all the existing master-workmen and their wives were in the habit of being present, could not take place in the apartments of a new master who was not a householder. A person so situated had to give a considerable money compensation in place of the customary banquet, in spite of which compensation his position in the guild remained an inferior one. Thus we find that the two brothers (or cousins), Reichel and Caspar Schönfelder, possessed each of them his house, and were duly-qualified burghers of Markneukirchen.
9It is recorded of Johann Reichel (Christian Reichel's son), who, soon after his father's death, was admitted master (in the year 1697), that he took a house and proposed to set up housekeeping with his mother. Johann Caspar Reichel was next-door neighbour to Caspar Schönfelder, who, besides being a master violin-maker, was also a baker by trade.
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