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Scan 229
The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
9 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1The nature of a personal affront from destiny, an unnecessary and rather humiliating condition, for which everything and everybody except himself must be to blame. one of two readings
2The Song of the Pine one of two readings
4the nature of a personal affront from destiny, an unnecessary and rather humiliating condition, for which everything and everybody except himself must be to blame. one of two readings
6In 1658 he was made an archducal retainer, in the service of the Archduke Leopold of Austria. This was all very well, but his debts remained unpaid. With Grethel and the babies, he contrived to reach Kirchdorff, in Austria, where in the vain effort to borrow money for the liquidation of his many accounts, he fell hopelessly into the clutches of the usurer, Solomon Hübner. This clever Jew merchant fed on all such foolish stuff as was represented by Jacob Stainer and his ilk. The method might be slow, but it was hideously sure; and the Stainer family were soon, bodies and souls, in the grip of Hübner.
8Providentially, in 1669, the emperor appointed Jacob to the post of violin maker of the Court. This new position fired Stainer with new energy and hope. He began to make more and more exquisitely finished violins, calling upon his Venetian studies to supply him with rare and effective kinds of varnish, and inventing star-shaped sound-holes, and elaborately ornamented scrolls, by way of variations. He took a house opposite Krupp Castle, and devoted his every waking moment
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