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Johann Wilhelm Bindernagel

Remstadt, 1770–1845

Originally a carpenter, apprenticed to F. A. Ernst. Professional work in the style of Ernst, usually Amati but sometimes Stradivari models. Made guitars after J. A. Otto of Weimar; also harps and other stringed instruments. Manuscript label: Prope Stradivarius / von / J.W. Bindernagel / in Gotha 182\u{2026} — John Dilworth

Worked Remstadt

Biographies

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John Dilworth+

BINDERNAGEL, Johann Wilhelm Born 1770, died 1845 Remstadt, Thuringia Germany. Originally a carpenter, apprenticed to F. A. Ernst. Professional work in the style of Ernst, usually Amati but sometimes Stradivari models. Made guitars after J. A. Otto of Weimar; also harps and other stringed instruments. Manuscript label: Prope Stradivarius / von / J.W. Bindernagel / in Gotha 1828 Johann Wilhelm Bindernagel / Instrumentenmacher in Gotha 1798

Cecie Stainer+

Of Gotha. Was first a carpenter, then became an apprentice to Ernst, when Otto left Ernst in order to settle at Weimar. He followed the Stradivari pattern, but his instruments are not well made. He also made harps and guitars. He died in 1845.

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+

Er war ursprünglich Tischler, erlernte bei Kleinsteuber in Gotha den Bau

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