'You'll slime them in and slime them out' – song of the gut string makers | Focus
2021-04-14T12:18:00+01:00 A new translation of a celebratory song brings to life the grisly business of gut string manufacture In 1877, the string makers’ guild of Markneukirchen in Germany celebrated its 100th birthday. As part of the festivities, the town’s postal clerk August Wilhelm Jäger was commissioned to write a song in praise of the town’s gut string makers. The son of a string maker himself, Jäger chose to write new lyrics to a popular song of the time, Ich bin der kleine Postillon, and filled 17 verses. I am a gut string maker’s son I know just how the making’s ...
Source: thestrad.com