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Manufacturer: Vintage Violins Built between 1900 and 1925 by Eugene Chartreux in Lyons, France for Beare & Son in London. More complex voice than many French instruments of its calibre. Dark brown varnish finish. Solid carved spruce top is medium uniform grained. Maple in the solid carved back, the ribs and neck has wide flame. Several professional repairs. Appears to have been French polished. Very good condition. This violin comes with information about Chartreuex from Henley & Woodcock's Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers.
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Manufacturer: Vintage Violins This violin is a nicely constructed hand made instrument with attributes consistent with German craftsmanship. The hand-written label appears original, and obviously has some age. It reads: "Made in Germany. Especially for F. O. Rietch [illegible] Chicago, Ill. Guaranteed hand made after the [illegible] Joseph Guarnarius fecit Cremona anno 1723."
All solid carved spruce top. All solid carved flamed maple back, sides and neck. Light colored spirit varnish finish. Ebony fittings. Dominant strings. The violin has some finish scratching, mostly on the upper bouts of the top.
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Manufacturer: Vintage Violins This violin, branded "Herman Lowendall - Berlin" in an oval, also has a paper label that reads: "Made expressly for the students of the New Haven Institute of Music," an entity that operated in the 1920s and 30s. This violin is in excellent condition with no repairs and only very small indications of use. The solid carved spruce top has moderately tight, even grain. The solid carved maple back, ribs and neck has nice, moderately tight flame. The varnish nice red-brown, antiqued to allow amber highlights show. The fittings are ebony. The tuning pegs have large mother-of-pearl French eyes. The strings are Evah Pirazzi.
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Manufacturer: Vintage Violins This violin is Jackson Guldan's Model No. 125, called the "Student Model." Back is of quartersawn flame maple. Fine spruce top. In dark reddish brown, grained with highlights shaded to reddish orange. Oil varnished, hand rubbed and polished. (The selling price in 1953 was $22.50). The back of the violin has an oval decal in gold, black, red and white which reads: "First National Institute of Allied Arts." (sold student instruments, method books and sheet music in the early 1900s). The condition of this violin is pristine.
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Manufacturer: Other violin importers The product of a 2004 collaboration between Czech and British violin builders- a project called "The Guarneri Project Violins." Fewer than 300 made, fewer than 180 distributed in the US. This violin is a a copy of the Guarneri violin played by Fritz Kreisler. The carving and assembly of the violin was done by a luthier in Prague. The varnish and set up was completed by a luthier in London. The collaborative effort produced instruments that have been called 'digitally remastered' copies of the original. This new instrument has a rich, loud voice that will only get better as a violinist plays it.
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Manufacturer: Vintage Violins Solid carved even grained spruce top. Solid carved flamed maple back, sides and neck. Nicely constructed instrument with attributes that are consistent with a 20th century German instrument. Rich red brown varnish antiqued to resemble a violin from the 1700s. Ebony fittings. Zyex strings. Excellent condition.
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Manufacturer: Vintage Violins Most people who know violins agree that Meinel violins were made in the Roth workshop. The construction and labels of Meinel violins support that theory. The arching, linings, scroll and varnish of Meinel violins are consistent with nicer quality Roth instruments of the same era. This violin is in excellent condition with no repairs. Some play wear expected on a violin that is more than 50 years old. The solid, carved spruce top is tight grained. The solid, carved maple back and sides have impressive, medium curl flame. Fittings are ebony.
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Manufacturer: Vintage Violins Built sometime near 1925, the attributes of this violin are consistent with an early 20th century instrument built in Markneukirchen, Germany. The label in the violin reads: "Robert A. Dölling - Markneukirchen - Made in Germany - Copie of Antonius Stradivarius." Above the label, the name, Dölling is branded on the inside of the violin on the back. Excellent condition, no repairs. The spirit varnish is a honey brown color.
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Manufacturer: Vintage Violins This violin has attributes like other 1920 Wurlitzer imports from Germany: even, tight grained spruce in the top, relatively wide flame in the maple of the back, sides and neck,
a refined scroll, delicate beestings and rich brown varnish. The rectangular label has a deliberately roughened and darkened edge with the characteristic script signature with the Cremona model and city names printed below. The right side of the label has a bump in it that could be caused by a maker's label under the Wurlitzer label.
This instrument has no repairs and almost no wear - remarkable condition for an instrument that is more than 90 years old. Ebony fittings. Dominant strings.
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