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The story of the violin, 1904
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1Jacobus Stainer
3seldom is altogether wrong; and distorted truth is yet derived from truth.
5It appears as historically certain that Stainer stayed in Absam all his life, except for one visit he paid to Salzburg in 1643, to deliver in person a viola bastarta and receive for it thirty florins, and occasional journeys to Hall and Innsbruck, where he sold his violins to strangers attracted by his reputation, or went to have a child christened or to pay his taxes. He married when he was twenty-four, bought a house (see Fig. 23)—which, it is said, stood by the roadside and was surrounded by large linden trees—and had many children. With the children (nine of them) came the cares, in spite of the fact that in 1658 he was appointed Court violin-maker to his Highness the Archduke Leopold, with the title "honoured and noble sir," and was famous in the land and beyond for his violins. Probably they fetched but a small profit, incommensurate to the time it cost the fastidious and scrupulous master to make
7Stainer's House
9FIG. 23.—STAINER'S HOUSE AT ABSAM.
10(Copyright.)
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