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the history of the violin, 1864
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1was published in the "Musical Gazette" of Leipzig. Jacob Augustus Otto was born at Gotha in 1762, and died in 1830; he was established at Halle, in Saxony, and was a good and careful maker, though for many years of his life he seems to have been employed almost exclusively in the manufacture of guitars; he was also very skilful in the repair of old instruments. He had no less than five sons who were makers; some at Halle and some at Jena. His work on the violin is well known, and we beg to acknowledge our obligations to it for many particulars of the German makers. Simon Joseph Truska, born in Bohemia, in 1734, made pianofortes as well as violins, altos, viols d'amour, and bass-viols; he was also a performer on the violin and violoncello; his death took place in the Convent of Strahow, in 1809. Matthias Frederic Scheinlein, born in 1710, lived at Langenfeld, in Franconia, where he died in 1771; he began as a violinist and a harpist. His son, Jean Michael Scheinlein, born in the same place, in 1751, was a better maker than his father, and the tone of his instruments was full and agreeable; but both those of his father and himself were weak in construction, and apt to give way in repairing. They were much used in the chapels. Michel Christophe Hildebrant, of Hamburg, towards the end of the century, was a good maker, and a skilful repairer. J. G. G. Heubsch wrote a work on the manufacture of musical instruments about 1764, and Charles Greiner, born at Wetzlar, 1753, invented an instrument to be played on with keys, which, by moving small cylindrical bows, put gut-strings into vibration; another of many experiments of this sort which never seem to have produced any permanent result. A Sweno Beckman is named at Stockholm in 1706, and Sawes Kiaposse at Petersburg, 1748.
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