Word: markneukirchen
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Young Moennig was apprenticed to his father for 15 years in Philadelphia before he was allowed to study in the Saxon village of Markneukirchen, where, since 1622, ten generations of Moennigs have fashioned string instruments. He brought back to Philadelphia enough seasoned Carpathian spruce and Tirolese maple to make 300 fiddles-which, at the rate of four new violins a year, will take a long time. He is convinced-that the wood is what counts. Harvard once made electrical tone tests of imitation Strads and Amatis that Moennig had built for the Curtis Quartet-and reported them slightly better than...
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