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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
10 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 47. See the scan on archive.org.
1remembrance of the Prussian, of whom Crasselt has recorded that "he brought violin-making to its highest condition of prosperity."
3Still, there were locally closer trade connections which were not neglected by the travelling artist. It may be remarked in this connection that the art of making forest-horns, and wooden instruments derived its chief incentive from Leipzig and Hof, and that in the latter branch of the trade a member of the already mentioned Gütter family distinguished himself. It would over-step the proposed limits of this work to go further into the details of the ever-varied demand for violins on the one hand and for wind instruments on the other.
5It would not, however, be out of place to remark at this point that the manufacture of violin bows remained at first far behind that of violins, and that for a long time bows were made only by the inferior artisans.
7The Chronicle relates that the art of bow-making was introduced into Markneukirchen by a citizen named Joseph Ströz. He died in the year 1760, and probably had settled there in the first decades of the century. We may infer from this that an earlier connection existed between our town and the centres of musical industry in Bavaria, and that the travelling apprentices and traders often dealt there.
9In the Bavaria of that day (for the Frankish States abutting upon the river Main were ruled by the Frankish branches of the House of Hohenzollern and by ecclesiastical princes) one can only reckon Mittenwald and
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