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Karl Fuhr

Bielefeld, Westphalia, worked 1926

Physicist and violin-maker. Author of The Acoustic Riddle of the Violin (Leipzig). Advocated the use of glass tubes to detect and allow the precise adjustment of discrete resonant areas of the plates. — John Dilworth

Worked Bielefeld, Westphalia
Made Violin

Auction price history

Highest auction price

£780
Type Details Auction house Sold Price
Violin Lot 62Brompton'sJune 2018£780

Biographies

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John Dilworth+

FUHR, Karl Worked circa. 1926 Bielefeld, Westphalia Germany. Physicist and violin-maker. Author of The Acoustic Riddle of the Violin (Leipzig). Advocated the use of glass tubes to detect and allow the precise adjustment of discrete resonant areas of the plates.

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