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Scan 24
The violin maker, 1905
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 18. See the scan on archive.org.
1sun shone gloriously in the blue heavens and the mountains were wrapped in golden light; the pine forest swam in blue mist, from whose depths poured the song of the little birds. The road went past the old fortress of Scharnitz to Kufstein and Hall. On the second day Stainer and his little companion reached Absam. How Matthias stared when he entered the workroom of the master and saw all the tools that are needed to make a violin, as well as all the completed instruments and those in process of making, which hung on the walls!
3"See!" said Stainer, "if thou art very industrious thou wilt soon be able to make such violins as these."
5Matthias sighed.
7"Ah," said he, "that will not come soon. I must learn many, many things before I get so far as that."
9This answer pleased the master. It proved to him that Matthias was not only sensible, but modest also.
11The next day the new scholar began his lessons in earnest. The master taught him to use
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