John Dilworth
HOFFMANN, Martin Worked circa. 1678-1719 Leipzig Germany. Amati derived model but of no distinction apart from a decent golden-yellow varnish. Martin Hoffmann / in Leipzig, 1688
George Hart
Maker of Lutes and Viols.
Cecie Stainer
d. in Leipzig, 1725. A maker of good lutes and viols, who worked in Leipzig from about 1685. He also made violins and violoncellos of good tone, although the inelegant pattern (the cut of the sound-holes, the sharp corners and weak edges) has caused them to be neglected. In 1720 he began to make the ” Viola pomposa,” a small violoncello with five strings tuned C, G, D, A, E, the invention of which is ascribed to J. S. Bach. It was never much used and seems to have been merely the reproduction of an obsolete form of violoncello. A specimen was exhibited in Paris, 1878; it was on a good model, very much arched, the head ending in a scroll, and the sound-holes well cut.
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff
Er stammte aus Leipzig und erlangte als Geigenmacher im Jahre 1678 das
Bürgerrecht. Sehr geschätzter Meister, von dem sich ziemlich viele Arbeiten,
sowohl Lauten- als Geigeninstrumente, erhalten haben. Bei den letzteren verwendete
er ein eigenes Modell mit sehr spitzen Ecken und schwachem Rand.
Seine Celli zeigen noch in Einzelhheiten die alte Gambenform. Vgl. Baron,
Laute S. 95, Walther’s Musik-Lexikon 1732 S. 316. De Wits Zeitschr. 1894
