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The violin maker, 1905
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 155. See the scan on archive.org.
1Mittenwald and has brought it great renown. Today little Mittenwald supplies nearly half the world with violins and other musical instruments; from India to Australia, from Africa to America, go the distinguished Mittenwald violins. Repairing the same occupies the majority of the inhabitants of the place. In almost every house one finds a violin maker. When one enters Mittenwald by the church on the so-called Gastige he gets the first glimpse into the valley, and how it does blink and shine, dangle and shake down there! There are the freshly varnished violins, great and small, from the growling, gigantic bass viol to the little child's violin; they hang in rows on long cords in the gardens, where the sun and the fresh air dry them.
3In the autumn the violin makers have their feast. Their patron saint is St. Cecilia. Little did Matthias Klotz think that this saint, whose statue he carved in Cremona, was one day to receive in Mittenwald so much honor!
5Matthias Klotz died a plain, modest man, but his name will live as long as a violin maker lives in Mittenwald. He first brought German
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