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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
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1of Albani; high modelled. He appears to have removed to Salzburg. There are Viols of his make dated from there in 1696 and 1699.
3SCHORN, Johann Paul, Salzburg, about 1700-16. Court instrument-maker.
5SCHOTT, Martin, Prague. Chiefly known as a maker of Lutes.
7SCHWARTZ, Strasbourg, about 1845. Several of this name worked in Strasbourg.
9SCHWEITZER, J. B., Budapest, died 1875. Flat model, neat workmanship. Made a few Tenors.
11STADELMANN, Daniel, Vienna, 1680-1744. 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 14, 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. In 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 inexpli-
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