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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875
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1not much larger; and our surprise increases when the close proximity of the Tyrolese workers to the chief Italian centres of the manufacture of Violins is also considered. If the names of Jacobus Stainer, Withalm, and Albani be excepted, the list is singularly destitute of makers famous for originality. The Germans were certainly great in the manufacture of the old stringed instruments, but seem to have made a poor beginning in the making of Violins. The form selected was bad, and they failed to improve upon it to any great extent. It would be quite impossible to furnish anything approaching a complete list of the German makers, their number being so extended, and so many of their instruments being anonymous, and withal so weak in character, that it is hard to discern them. Every care, however, has been taken to render the following list as complete as possible. With this School is classed that of Holland, which has produced so few makers that it seems unnecessary to arrange them in a separate list.
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