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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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1ments. It was also of importance that the travelling violin-maker should be on the look-out for gut adapted for the manufacture of strings, good and cheap resin, oils, colours, wood, shell, and other material for inlaying instruments, especially if he desired to become a dealer as well as a maker. It was more advantageous to procure these articles (especially the resins, foreign woods and gut) from Northern Germany via the Dutch harbours of Hamburg, than by the Mediterranean harbours (whence they had to make the difficult passage of the Alps), unless these materials were to be had at the fairs.
3It is an established fact, and one within the recollection of men living on the spot at the beginning of this century, that in our town the manufacture of strings had begun in the year 1730, although it was not until the year 1870 or thereabouts that a charter of Incorporation was granted to the string-makers' guild.
5It is further stated in this connection, that at first, only a few who had previously travelled abroad occupied themselves with this branch of the art and raised it gradually to its present status by laborious study, industry, thought, and expense. It is reserved for future and more minute research to discover the names of those men who first devoted themselves to this useful trade, and to find how far the development of this particular branch of industry may have influenced the history of violin-making. The wide pasture lands of the great North German low-lands favoured the keeping of large herds of sturdy native sheep, which
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