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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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1a few neighbouring places in Upper Bavaria as the centre of the musical instrument industry. At this place (Mittenwald) violin-making became established in 1683 by Egidius Klotz (the esteemed pupil of the celebrated violin-maker Stainer) some years before the proud Venetian merchants transferred their business to Mittenwald on account of some offence taken at the yearly market at Botzen. In the Upper Bavarian and the neighbouring Tyrolese Alps where Jacob Stainer (who was a pupil of Amati) was born, the wood of the hazel fir was found which was so highly valued on account of the splendid tone it imparted to the instruments, and it did not grow in the Vogtland and the Fichtelgebirge. Besides this there was always something to be learnt from the masters in Mittenwald and Füssen, as they were in constant communication with the Italian masters, and especially with those of the Cremonese school.
3In the beginning of the century there were in Vienna, Prague, Nurnberg, Würzberg, Bamberg, Langenfeld, and Franken, many violin makers, and it can hardly be doubted that the travelling makers from Markneukirchen frequently wandered thither, and even into Italy. The maple trees of the country round Markneukirchen and the surrounding territories no longer sufficed for the growing manufacture; even at the beginning of the previous century it had been necessary to procure suitable maple wood from Bavaria and the Tyrol, where maple trees eight hundred years old were to be found. The south German and Austrian forests supplied
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