Johann Joseph Elsler
c.1690–1747
Stainer model with high boxy arch and deep edge flute. Soundholes very open-cut and quite close-set with Amatisé body form. Neatly cut scroll with exaggeratedly broad first turn. Thin intensely coloured dark red-brown varnish. Also made viola d’amores. Johannes Joseph Elsler / Lauten und Geigenmache\u{2026} — John Dilworth
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John Dilworth+
ELSLER, Johann Joseph Born circa. 1690 Idzików (Kieslingswald) Poland, died 1747 Mainz Germany. Stainer model with high boxy arch and deep edge flute. Soundholes very open-cut and quite close-set with Amatisé body form. Neatly cut scroll with exaggeratedly broad first turn. Thin intensely coloured dark red-brown varnish. Also made viola d’amores. Johannes Joseph Elsler / Lauten und Geigenmacher / Meyntz 1717 Johann Joseph Elsler /Churfurstl Mayntzischer Hof / Lauten und Geigenmacher, 1746 [Michels]
George Hart+
Made many good Viols da Gamba.
Cecie Stainer+
A maker in Mayence about 1715-30. One bass-viol with seven strings, the head of a woman instead of scroll, and with varnish of a yellow-brown colour, was dated 1728.
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Ein seiner Zeit hochgeschätzter Meister, der mit Joh. Ulr. Eberle auf einer
Stufe steht. Seine Arbeit ist sehr sauber, das Holz, namentlich der Decken,
meist recht gut; seine Geigen nähern sich dem Stainer-Modell; am besten gelangen ihm aber doch Violen und Gamben. Sein Lack ist gelbbraun. Eine siebensaitige Bassviola
aus dem Jahre 1728 mit einem Frauenköpfchen am Wirbelkasten findet sich aus der Sammlung Snoeck (No. 487) in Berlin.
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