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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1921
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1The Heart of Music
3The family of Tieffenbrücker was far-famed for the marvellous lutes which it gave to the world. Troubadours and jongleurs, dilettante knights and lyrically inclined ladies went to the little workshops under the shadow of the Tyrolean hills to buy the dainty, inlaid instruments so celebrated in the Old World. Before they were lute makers they had been carpenters, common workmen who made what the public chanced to want. But they had beauty-loving souls, the Tieffenbrücker men, and when they finally took up the making of instruments as their specialty, their lutes were pre-eminent for beauty, alike of tone and of form.
5The illustrious Tieffenbrücker names—in what chronological order we do not know—were Wendelin, Leonhard, Leopold, Uldrich, Magnus, and Kaspar. Magnus gained some reputation as a lute maker in Venice in 1607; but Kaspar was the really celebrated son of the house,—the only one whose name can be written in gold on the tables comprising the history of the violin.
7The story goes that Kaspar Tieffenbrücker was brought up, like his father and brothers, to make lutes, but he was one of the naturally progressive spirits who are fitted for creative, inventive work rather than the capable following of any beaten
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