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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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1admitted on immediate payment of the mastership fees, and both gave besides 2 groschen 6 pf. towards the funds of the masters' Treasury. Reichel 12 groschen in addition towards the Exchequer of the apprentices.
367. Johann Friedrich Reichel, son of a deceased Johann Reichel, violin-maker's apprentice, was admitted as a member to this Guild, after compliance with the prescribed formalities, in 1762, in public session of the assembled Worshipful Guild of Violin-makers. He paid, besides the usual master taxes, 12 groschen to the masters' Exchequer and to the apprentices for pipes and tobacco. He was simultaneously admitted to participate in all the benefits which were enjoyed by other masters of the craft.
5The records in the Chronicle concerning this admission are characteristic of the changed, or at least wavering, nature of the violin-maker's calling. These 67 masters admitted since 1727 had developed, together with a few dating from the earlier times, into a numerically important community during the past generation. The manufacture could now be carried on on a larger scale on account of the newer directions in which musical taste had progressed and the important development of concert music. But from these very causes the artistic aspirations of many of the makers became dulled into a commercial activity and the appreciation of the meaning of their art pursued as an art became more and more a thing of the past.
7The descendants of fathers and grandfathers, who had done splendid work under
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