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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1There are Viols of his make dated from there in 1696 and 1699.
3SCHORN, Johann Paul, Salzburg, about 1700—1716. Court instrument-maker.
5SCHOTT, Martin, Prague. Chiefly known as a maker of lutes.
7SCHWARTZ, Strasbourg, about 1845.
9SCHWEITZER, ——, Pesth, about 1800. Flat model, neat workmanship. Made a few Tenors.
11STADELMANN, Daniel, Vienna, about 1730—1750. Good work, model of Jacob Stainer. Thin varnish, sometimes yellow colour.
13STADELMANN, Johann Joseph, Vienna, 18th century. Copied Stainer; average merit.
15STAINER, Jacob Absam, born July 14th, 1621, at Hall. The celebrity of this maker is second only to that of the great Cremonese artists. His admirers in Germany and England were, at one time, more numerous than those of the principal Italian makers.
17Jacobus Stainer in Absam prope Oenipontum. 17—
19In a manuscript note which Sir John Hawkins added to his own copy of his History of Music (1776), he says, "The Violins of Cremona are exceeded only by those of Stainer, a German, whose instruments are remarkable for a full and piercing tone." To the connoisseur of to-day such commendation may seem inexplicable, and cause him to believe that Fiddle admirers of past times were incapable of appreciating true beauty of form, and its bearing upon sound, or else that fashion made its influence felt on the Fiddle world as elsewhere. It would be absurd to deny that the greatest German maker of Violins that ever lived was a man of rare abilities, because it is indelibly written on his chief
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