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Scan 234
The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1The Heart of Music
3[Burgher and Violin-Maker] in Küpstien, anno 1659."
5There is a story which is sometimes told in connection with Jacob Stainer, but which, from all we know of both brothers, is infinitely more likely to have happened to Marcus. It runs as follows:
7"Count Trautmandsorff, a rich noble, and Grand Equerry to the Emperor Charles VI, desired a Stainer violin, to add to his already considerable stock of treasures." The chronicle continues: "He paid sixty-six golden caroluses, undertaking to supply Stainer as long as he lived with a good dinner every day, one hundred and eighty florins in specie every month, a new suit of clothes with gold frogs every year, as well as two casks of beer, lodging, firing, and lighting; and further, if he should marry, as many hares as he should want annually for himself, and as many more for his old nurse:"
9Does not this sound like the sort of agreement which Marcus Stainer might make?
11The chronicle concludes in this fashion:
13"Stainer lived sixteen years after this, so the violin must have cost the Count in all twenty thousand florins in cash!"
15One word more as to the celebrated "Elector
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