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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1manufacture in Germany. The exceptional merits of this famous German artist were soon recognised, and his followers were legion. Among them were Sebastian Kloz, George Kloz, Egidius Kloz, and other members of that, perhaps the largest family of Fiddle-makers that the world has had (had they been as good as they were numerous, what stores of prized Violins would have been bequeathed to us!); Riess, of Bamberg; Rauch, of Breslau; and Leopold Withalm, of Nuremberg, who was one of Stainer's best imitators; and others, less known.
3There were several German makers—led, possibly, by the example of Stainer and Albani the younger, who turned their attention to Italy, as furnishing models superior to their own, and thus combined the styles of both countries; while they endeavoured to copy closely the Italian masters, without attempting to be original. Nicholas Amati was the maker whom these men chiefly copied, and most successfully did they perform their task. These copies, however, did not meet with the success to which they were entitled, and the popularity of Stainer's model was then so great that the instruments made upon other systems than his found no favour in the Fatherland. The makers who were faithful copyists of the Italian masters were Ruppert, Bachmann, Jauch, and Eberle, of Prague.
5When we consider the vast number of makers forming the German School, we cannot fail to feel surprised that the number of really good artists was
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