Bruck an der Mur School
Johann Adam Popel
Bruck an der Mur, worked 1664–1700
Brescian-like instruments; long slanting soundholes with small pointed wings. Corners also pointed. Purfling broad and prominent. Extraordinary heads with small but extremely flared volute atop a large and unwieldy unfluted pegbox. Light golden varnish. Johann Adam Pöpel / in Bruck, 1664 — John Dilworth
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John Dilworth+
PÖPEL, Johann Adam Worked circa. 1664-1700 Bruck an der Mur Austria & Markneukirchen Germany. Brescian-like instruments; long slanting soundholes with small pointed wings. Corners also pointed. Purfling broad and prominent. Extraordinary heads with small but extremely flared volute atop a large and unwieldy unfluted pegbox. Light golden varnish. Johann Adam Pöpel / in Bruck, 1664
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
In einer Geige im Germanischen Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg findet sich
sein Zettel. Der Wohnort Bruck kann nur jenes kleine Dorf (Gemeinde Neudorf)
im Gerichtsbezirk Wildstein bei Eger sein, aus dem eine Anzahl von
Familien über die Grenze nach dem nahegelegenen Markneukirchen ausgewandert ist. — Die Jahreszahl konnte auch 1604 gelesen werden.
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