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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884

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1GERMAN MAKERS.
3REICHEL, Johann Gottfried, Absam, 18th century.
4REICHEL, Johann Conrad, Neukirchen, 18th century.
5REICHERS, August, Berlin, now living. Pupil of Bausch of Leipsic.
6RIESS, ——, Bamberg, about 1750.
7ROTH, Christian, Augsberg, 17th century.
8RUPPERT, Franz, Erfurt, 18th century.
9SAINPRAE, Jacques, Berlin, 17th century. A Baryton Viol of this maker is among the musical instruments at the Kensington Museum. It is said to have belonged to Johann Quantz, the famous flute-player.* The Baryton was a favourite instrument with Haydn. He composed several pieces for the instrument, and was fond of playing it. The Baryton, or Viola di Bordone, is of the character of the Viole d'Amour, being strung with sympathetic metal strings. It is, however, a larger and more complicated instrument.
10SAWICKI, ——, Vienna, about 1830.
11SCHEINLEIN, Mathias F., 1710—1771. High built; dark varnish.
13* The flute-playing of Johann Joachim Quantz in 1728 gave so much pleasure to the Crown Prince of Prussia, afterwards Frederick the Great, that he decided to take lessons from Quantz, who was then in the service of Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Quantz was stationed alternately in Dresden and Warsaw. He became a member of the orchestra of Augustus in 1718, when Jean Baptiste Volumier was its director, of whom mention has been made (page 196) relative to his having been sent to Cremona in 1715 to await the completion of twelve Violins ordered of Stradivari.

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