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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1Nicholas Diel, to whom he gave instructions in Violin-making.
3STEININGER, Franz, St. Petersburg, son of Jacob Steininger.
5STOSS, ——. Makers of this name worked at Prague, Vienna, and Füssen, about the end of the 18th century.
7STOSS, Martin, Vienna, about 1824. Flat model, good workmanship. Stradivari model, indifferent varnish.
9STRAUBE, ——, Berlin, about 1775.
11STRAUSS, Joseph, Neustadt, about 1750.
13TIELKE, Joachim, Hamburg, about 1539—1592.
15The name of Tielke is associated with the most remarkable instruments of the Lute and Guitar kind ever produced in relation to rich and chaste ornamentation. It is said there are glowing accounts in old German books of the magnificent instruments by Tielke, with elaborate designs in silver, gold, and jewels.* The ornamentation and workmanship seen in the best instruments of this maker bear the impress of Italian art of a high order, and evidence the employment of Italian draughtsmen by the house of Tielke. In the collection of instruments at Kensington is a Chiterna, (an instrument of the Lute kind) of this make. The body is ornamented with tortoise-shell, with mythological figures in ivory and precious stones. It is signed, and dated 1539. I possess a
17* Engel's "Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in Kensington Museum," 1874.
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