Books › The violin maker, 1905 › scan 160
Scan 160
The violin maker, 1905
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 154. See the scan on archive.org.
1Church, the same church where in life he had so often sought help and strength from Heaven.
3Klotz did his birthplace a deathless service; he made little Mittenwald the German Cremona. As early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Mittenwald violin makers were to be found on all the highways and other roads. With a pack, on the outside of which there was usually a violin, they passed from one city to another, from one country to another. The honorable business men, with their valuable wares, were gladly welcomed everywhere. They not only understood how to make violins, but the most of them played very well, and thereby made many a customer who had not intended to buy. And what his playing would not do the seller accomplished by his mother-wit and his pleasant manner.*
5For a long time the art of violin making was held in the Klotz family as a sacred inheritance. Men called the brothers Klotz and their relations simply "The Violin Makers." The family has now died out, but their art remains to Mit-
7*J. Booder, Chronicle of Mittenwald, p. 197.
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.