“Secondly, To play on the violin after the Italian manner, with a peculiar method of bowing and shifting in solo’s or concerto’s.
“Thirdly, Drawing and miniature painting with colours, flowers, insects, etc.... Likewise to draw patterns for embroidery, or any kind of needle work....
“He has a variety of music, composed by the most eminent masters, for the violino solo, con cembalo et violoncello, to be disposed of on easy terms.
John Matthias Kramer.”[124]
Five years later another accomplished German music teacher appeared upon the scene, whose modest advertisement is a relief after reading the previous effusion. This man confines himself to the German flute, which seems to have been an instrument of some importance at that period. This notice runs as follows:
“This is to inform the Public,
“That an Evening School for teaching young Gentlemen to play upon the German Flute will be opened by the Subscriber ... where young Gentlemen may be taught, by an easy and regular Method, to play with Judgement and Taste, for the moderate Price of Six Shillings per Week, and Thirty Shillings Entrance Money, provided the Subscriber can procure six Scholars. The Hours of Attendance will be every Evening (Sundays excepted.) from 6 to 8 o’clock. Said Subscriber will also attend Gentlemen at their Houses, one Hour every other Day, for one Guinea per Month and Thirty Shillings Entrance.
John Stadler.
N. B. If any Gentleman is desirious to know the character and abilities of said Subscriber as a Teacher of Music, they may be satisfied by enquiring of any Gentleman in this City, who is a Judge of these Matters.”[125]
It is to be noted that Stadler opened a school for his instrument, which emphasizes the popularity which this instrument must have enjoyed.