Carl Meyer
MEYER, Carl
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Life
German violin trade name associated with the Vogtland (Markneukirchen) instrument-making industry. Active around the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, instruments bearing the name “Carl Meyer, Vogtländisches Fabrikat” were workshop-produced violins made for the export market. Following traditional German construction methods and classical Italian models, these instruments represent the skilled commercial production of the Saxon violin-making region. The name does not appear to refer to a single extensively documented maker but to a workshop or trade attribution.
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