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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1The Lute Maker of Tyrol
3it is worse then useless to theorise or search too closely. Such "facts" as may have come to us, mythical or well-substantiated, we must accept perforce and fit together as best we may. If the pieces do not join smoothly, we have two courses open to us,—either to discard some fragments or to call in imagination to cement them all into harmony.
5The statements of the wise persons who declare, undoubtedly with excellent reason, that no genuine violins were made before 1520, we cannot rob Kaspar Tieffenbrücker of the golden credit that lies to his name in the bank of public gratitude. Though there are those who dispute the fact that he could have made what one history declares were "very superior violins," the musical world will continue blindly to hail him as one of the first violin makers, and to honour him as such in a glorious company of which one master, laurel crowned but silent, is the beloved and true king,—Stradivari.
7Tieffenbrücker's career was a long and illustrious one and he had many followers and pupils, some of them doubtless who had been apprenticed to him in Tyrol and had shared his fortunes cheerfully ever since; others whom he had picked up in Bologna and neighbouring Italian towns,
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