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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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1very difficult circumstances, felt satisfied with inferior work, restricted as they were in their efforts by the rules of a mere trades-union. By degrees they cut themselves off more and more from all connection with all matters foreign to the objects of the Guild, and the marrying of a master's daughter became the only means open to a so-called "stranger" of obtaining admission to this great community, conspicuous for its wealth and influence in matters municipal. It may be taken as a sign of the greater importance attached to household tenure that single members of the violin-makers' families devoted themselves to University studies, whilst outsiders, such as the two subsequently admitted pastors, Schetelig and the sons of the magistrates Kretschmar and Siebel, sought admission to the rights of mastership in the Guild. As early as in 1682 there had been some talk of a confirmation of the Guild by charter, but indications of official incorporation are first found in a proctocol of the year 1729, immediately following on one bearing only the theretofore usual designation of the Guild's work as a "worshipful" art.
3The seven years' war was ended, and the arts of peace, especially music, flourished once more, and this renaissance brought with it higher efforts of mechanical skill, and a greater appreciation of the value of more delicate work, in the fabrication of musical instruments. This is noticeable already in the admission of masters in the following years.
568 and 69. In the year 1764 the violin-maker's apprentices, Johann Gottfried Hamm
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