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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
4 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 44. See the scan on archive.org.
1The admission of Christian Gottlob Pfretzschner could only take place in July, 1766, on account of his absence abroad, but he had applied for admission in June, 1765, and had paid the preliminary tax. It can hardly be doubted after this explanation and those that have gone before, adverting to the dangers to which such "travelling youths" were exposed by reason of the war, that the "years of travel" (as journeymen) and even longer period of expatriation became more frequent among apprentices. The Register of the Guild gives no further information respecting the direction in which such expeditions were made, but it cannot be doubted, on reference to other chronicles, that Northern Germany, westwards and eastwards as far as the Sclavonish countries, as well as the south as far as Italy, were much visited. In the historical course of things Markneukirchen had become, to a certain extent, a centre of the earlier and more highly developed art of violin-making as practised in Italy and the countries of Southern Europe, including Austria. The principal depôts for the sale of the instruments must have been found in Northern and Eastern Germany and in the neighbouring Sclavonic states.
3When once the wholesale trade in musical instruments was firmly established, the artistic training of the apprentices and masters was conducted less in the undertaking of trade journeys than by the establishment of new trade centres, and new connections for the further development of the manufacture of and trade in the instru-
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