Mittenwald School
Joseph (I) Hornsteiner
Mittenwald, worked 1730–1780
Coarse and unequal work with meagre yellow-brown varnish. Useful cellos and double basses. Joseph Hornsteiner, Musicant / in Mittenwald an der her. 1735 — John Dilworth
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John Dilworth+
HORNSTEINER, Joseph (I) Worked circa. 1730-1780 Mittenwald Germany. Coarse and unequal work with meagre yellow-brown varnish. Useful cellos and double basses. Joseph Hornsteiner, Musicant / in Mittenwald an der her. 1735
Cecie Stainer+
A maker in Mittenwald about 1730. He made some good double-basses.
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Seine Arbeit ist gut, der Lack goldbraun, er machte auch gut- klingende Bässe.
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