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Hamburg School

Heinrich Ohlhaver

Hamburg, worked 1921

Devised various treatments and modifications applicable to all bowed instruments to give ‘Stradivari tone’. Despite endorsement from the Berlin Philharmonic the process was not widely taken up. — John Dilworth

Worked Hamburg

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John Dilworth+

OHLHAVER, Heinrich Worked circa. 1921 Sande, Hamburg Germany. Devised various treatments and modifications applicable to all bowed instruments to give ‘Stradivari tone’. Despite endorsement from the Berlin Philharmonic the process was not widely taken up.

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