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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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1the payments extended lasted, for his son, from the 18th May to December 2nd, and the resolution was taken that in the future all masters' sons should be similarly treated.
3If on the following admissions the terminal times of payment are not set forth in the Guild Register, it does not prove that the resolve was broken. Four candidates for master's rights who presented themselves for admission in June, 1765, and paid their taxes, only attained the full estate of mastership in June and July, 1766. The same rigour was observed in the subsequent admissions, although the candidates were scions of masters' families.
5Still more severe, and conducive to the maintenance of the esteem which the excellence of their instruments had won for the violin-makers of Markneukirchen, was the rule which enforced the production of one masterpiece by way of diploma-work, from all, without distinction, who proposed to practise the art and craft as an independent master.
7In the original confirmation of the Charter by the Landgrave the requirement of a masterpiece had not been particularised, in many cases they had been satisfied with payment of a certain sum in place of the testing of work by the assembled Guild. Now the rule came into operation, that after payment of the third tax, the commencement of Masterhood should date from the commencement of the Masterpiece, and 20 days were allowed over and above for its completion. They went still further in prescribing the
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