Cologne School
Michael Bochem
Cologne, worked 1690–1730
Son of Dierich Bochem, above. Chiefly concerned with plucked instruments, though some well-made violins known, with good materials and varnish. Michael Bochem Lauten / und Geigenmacher in Cöllen Anno, 1720 — John Dilworth
Biographies
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John Dilworth+
BOCHEM (BOCHUM), Michael Worked circa. 1690-1730 Cologne Germany. Son of Dierich Bochem, above. Chiefly concerned with plucked instruments, though some well-made violins known, with good materials and varnish. Michael Bochem Lauten / und Geigenmacher in Cöllen Anno, 1720
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Vielleicht ein Sohn Dierich’s und der Vater Johanns. Ein geschickter und
vielbeschäftigter Lautenmacher, von dem das germanische Museum in Nürnberg
eine Zither aus dem Jahre 1728, die kgl. Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente
in Berlin eine fünfchörige Zither mit ovalem Schallkasten von schöner Arbeit
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Family
Joannes Bochem Son
Working in Cologne at the same time
Dierich Bochem worked 1660–1700