Saint Petersburg School
Sawes Kiaposse
Saint Petersburg, worked 1740–1760
Petersburg Russia. Violins in the Russian style with no rib overhang and consequently narrow pointed corners. Good workmanship and fair varnish, but not generally successful other than in traditional music. Sawes Kiaposse / A Petersburg. 17.. — John Dilworth
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John Dilworth+
KIAPOSSE, Sawes Worked circa. 1740-1760 St. Petersburg Russia. Violins in the Russian style with no rib overhang and consequently narrow pointed corners. Good workmanship and fair varnish, but not generally successful other than in traditional music. Sawes Kiaposse / A Petersburg. 17..
Cecie Stainer+
A maker in St. Petersburg about 1748-50.
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Arbeiten von ihm konnte ich nirgends erfragen; da sein Name mit der
Jahreszahl jedoch schon bei Hart angegeben ist, der ihn zur deutschen Schule
zählt, so ist anzunehmen, dass wenigstens Hart ein Instrument von ihm gesehen
haben muss. Alle übrigen Schriftsteller folgen nur Hart.
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