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Two bankers from Sparkasse Bremen bank invited violin maker Roger Hargrave to inspect their violins, which they believed to be Stradivarius violins. Machold had represented them as such when he offered them as collateral for a multi-million dollar loan. [2]
Music portal This category is for articles about musical instrument makers from the European country of Germany . Classification : People : By occupation : Artisans / Music people : Musical instrument makers : By nationality : German
A Höfner 500/1 "violin bass" similar to the one used by Paul McCartney. A German luthier, Karl Höfner (1864–1955), founded the Höfner company in the town of Schönbach in Austria-Hungary (now Luby in the Czech Republic) in 1887. He soon became the largest string instrument manufacturer in the country. His sons, Josef and Walter, joined the ...
Greiner built his first violin at the age of fourteen. He completed his training in Bonn. In 2013 he moved his workshop from Bonn to London, where he worked with several renowned experts and auction houses. Since 2018, Greiner has been managing the violin making company W. E. Hill & Sons, London, together with Robert Brewer Young.
Piano manufacturing companies of Germany (1 C, 34 P) Pages in category "Musical instrument manufacturing companies of Germany" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
Louis Lowenthal (Löwenthal, Lowendall, Lowendahl) (born 1836) was a luthier.He learned violin and bow making in Leipzig and Berlin.He founded his violin manufacturing business in Berlin, expanded into Dresden and eventually opened an American branch.
He was a pupil of Oswald Möckel, a prominent German violin maker and repairer. Friedrich came to the United States in 1883, and in a short time ranked among the American leaders in his profession. His older brother William (1855–1911) joined him soon and they established the company "Friedrich, John, & Bro." on 5th Avenue in New York City .
John Juzek (né Janek Jůzek, aka Jan, aka Johann;1892, Písek – c. 1965, Luby) was a Czech merchant, widely known in North America as an exporter of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses made and labeled under his anglicized name, "John Juzek," crafted mostly by guilds and various independent makers in the Bohemia region of the Czechoslovakia and Germany border.