Crossword-Solution: SPEIDEL 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

After two years in Chicago, Kelley went to Germany, where, in Stuttgart, he studied the piano with Kruger and Speidel, organ with Finck, composition and orchestration with Seiffritz.

His musical instructors include Speidel, Lebert, and Pruckner, at Stuttgart, Huff the contrapuntist at Frankfort, and Vannucini, who taught him singing, at Florence.

The present R痮tmann, when he went to a dance, was in the habit of stuffing into his long pockets a dozen of the heavy iron axes, used for splitting wood, called _Speidel_ by the country people, so that every one got out of his way, and left him ample space to dance.

Speidel-R痮tmann had two sons, Vincent and Adam; the eldest, Vincent, was not particularly strong, but as sharp and spiteful as a lynx; a quality he inherited from his mother, for the R痮tmanns, though untamed and fierce, are not malicious.

Speidel-R痮tmann, as the trunk was the finest tree in the forest, wished to send it floating down the Rhine, for he said,--'a tree is a tree, and money is money; why should the tree be left to rot on the ground, because it chanced to cause Vincent's death?' His wife, however, was of a different opinion.