Word: steinweg
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Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, born in the village of Wolfshaven in 1797, was, with his brothers, a mountain guide. His country was devastated by Napoleon, then by the insurgent Prussians. His three brothers were killed on a mountain peak by a lightning bolt. Heinrich Steinweg joined the troops of the Duke of Brunswick. He played the bugle. In his knapsack, he carried a jewsharp- an instrument which he found inadequate. He evolved a dulcimer. It was played by striking the strings with little hammers...
...Heinrich Steinweg had a long brown beard that lay on his chest like a cloud guarding a secret. His son, Charles, also had a beard, but he was a wild, moonlighting fellow, and the end of it was that he had to flee the country. His choice left him free to write a letter home in which he described glowingly the country he had reached. His father, mother, six assorted brothers, sisters, set out to reach his side. When Henry Clay was making a vain but practised compromise with Death, and John Calhoun had roared his last, Peter Cooper, builder...