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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

Worked Mittenwald

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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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