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Scan 33
The violin maker, 1905
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 27. See the scan on archive.org.
1something very different from going to the Tyrol out of Mittenwald. But Matthias was not wandering around the world shiftlessly, and his parents, who saw in the strong desires of their child a voice from heaven directing them, offered no objection to the boy's plans.
3After three days there came another parting. The morning had scarcely dawned, and the first sunbeams had not touched the highest mountain peaks, when the carrier Achleitner cracked his whip before the house of the tailor Klotz. Matthias appeared, this time with rather more baggage than on the first occasion. He embraced his father and mother, kissed them, and climbed into the piled-up wagon, with its many boxes, chests, and bales, all filled with valuable goods.
5The boy made this journey without accident. The good Achleitner cared for him through the whole journey, and when they came to Padua placed the little violin maker with a business friend from Cremona, who promised to take the boy safely to the Maestro Amati.
7Nicolo Amati was at that time the first violin
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