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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1921
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1XIV.—The Song of the Pine
3Among those who followed in the pathway of Tieffenbrücker were the brothers Stainer—Jacob and Marcus. It is not certain that they were apprenticed to or taught by the Tieffenbrücker family, but it is so stated in more than one chronicle. They lived in Absom, a village less than a mile from Innsbruck, and are known to have studied viol-making from a family of "Lautenmacher (Lute Makers)" at Innsbrück. Jacob, born July 14, 1621, the older and more talented of the two, made very wonderful instruments of all kinds, but is less well known by persons generally than many less eminent violin makers.
5Although he studied with Nicolo Amati, in all probability, and certainly worked in Italy for some time, his place belongs among the lute makers of Tyrol, so justly famous for their exquisite mechanical sense in musical manufacture as well as for their many radical explorers in new and fertile fields of music.
7His parents were Martin Stainer and Sabine Gräfinger, and like so many of the early instrument
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