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(Merle Hunter/Stars and Stripes)

Mittenwald, Germany, July 13, 1956: As violins hang in the window to dry after varnishing, another is worked on at the shop of Johann Reiter, one of the few masters of the trade left in a city whose fortunes were revived by the arrival of violin-making in the late 1600s.

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