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Scan 148
Voice and violin, 1898
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3A RIVAL OF STRADIVARIUS
5Among the great violin-makers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Kloz family deserve special notice. It appears to have been a large family; but that is rather doubtful, the name of Kloz (pronounced, and often spelt, Klotz) having been placed, with many kinds of surnames, upon spurious violin labels, often bearing impossible dates.
7An elder member of this family, who can be traced back to the middle of the seventeenth century, was an apprentice of the celebrated Stainer, at Absom, near Insbrück, and one or more of the Kloz family, like Stainer himself, went to Cremona for a time. Their workshop was at Mittenwald, on the Iser, a small town on the borders of the Austrian Tyrol.
9It was Tyrolean timber that supplied them with the wood of which their instruments are made, and they had the bad habit, according to George Hart, of cutting the trees at the wrong season; or rather, we should say, they purchased wood that had been
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