Scan 152
Voice and violin : sketches, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1898
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1been dealt with as Stainer instruments. But Stainer, we know, was for some time at Cremona; and it is also on record that many German violin-makers were present in that ancient city in the days of Stradivarius, and probably long before that.
3When we consider how little is known about the Kloz family, it is quite possible that Sebastian Kloz may also have been at Cremona; his father, Mathäus Kloz, is admitted to have worked there for several years.
5Anyhow, they must all have been very superior makers, for their name has remained popular down to the present time. On account of their great reputation in olden times, many indifferent instruments have been foisted upon the public with spurious labels of these makers, so that years ago, when I was a student on the Continent, the term "Kloz" was applied to a violin in Belgium or France as a sarcastic manner of condemning it!
7The period at which Sebastian Kloz worked was probably from 1720 to 1760 or thereabouts; he was for a great number of years a contemporary of Stradivarius; and the day will come when his violins will be much better known than they are at present.
9This is how I make out the pedigree of the Kloz family, with the approximate date of their periods:—
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