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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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1large quantities of pear wood, such as was used for finger-boards, tail-pieces, and pegs. Above all, for a long time it was necessary to procure strings, ready made from Italy, as indeed is the case to this day.
3If the travelling dealers did not reach as far as the centres of the string manufacturing industry, such as Venice, Cremona, Treviso, &c., they were obliged to satisfy their needs either at the markets of Botzen (to which the Venetians had retransferred their dépôt after a short absence) or at other instrument-making centres.
5It is not probable that the violin and bass makers of the time chronicled by the Register of the Guild had penetrated beyond northern Italy in the south, and the Rhine Vistula in the north; at any rate all record of such wanderings is wanting.
7Subjoined are the names of those masters who were admitted from the year 1765 up to the time when the register closes:—
970–73. Johann Adam Martin, Carl Friedrich Pfretzschner, Christian Gottlob Pfretzschner and Johann Gottfried Kretschmann, whose admission was begun by payment of taxes on June 9th, 1765, and was only completed in July, 1766.
1174—77. In the year 1768, Georg Adam Kässler, Christian Gotthilf Fischer, Carl Friedrich Reichel, and Johann Georg Voigt, were admitted as masters, but Reichel's third tax was not paid until the following year.
1378, 79. Johann Georg Schönfelder and Johann Adam Kretschmann, two Militia recruits, who were admitted free in 1769.
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