LOTHAR SEMMLINGER
In November 1980, Geigenbaumeister Lothar Semmlinger founded his company in Baiersdorf, Germany, a well-known medium-scale musical instrument center in Germany. The instruments from
JORG WUNDERLICH MASTER VIOLIN MAKER
I am descended from an old Vogtland-based family which was engaged in instrument making for several generations. As a little boy, I watched my grand-grandfather in
Our passion is to create unique instruments. All instruments are manufactured with love and devotion at the traditional company Otto Jos. Klier. We attach the highest importance to quality. The violin
HEINZ EGLI
My workshop is in Hamburg-Altona, on Bernstorffstraße between Schanzenviertel and St. Pauli.
The focus of my work is the restoration of old stringed instruments, repairs to instruments and
RICHARD GRUNKE & SOHNE
Richard Grünke, born in Poland in 1930, ended up in the upper Vogtland in 1944 during the turmoil at the end of WWII. He began his apprenticeship as
a bow maker in 1945 wit
JANSEN FINE BOWS
Stephan Jansen was born into a German-French family of musicians who inspired his passion for music and instruments at an early age. He began studying viola under Prof. Barbara Westph
In my work repairs and restoration form a harmonious unity with the new building. Through collaboration with soloist musicians, I have gained experience in solving tonal problems in 30 years of violin
RODERICH PAESOLD GBR
Born in 1891 in the Bohemian “Musikwinkel“ (music corner) close to the district capital of Eger, Roderich Paesold grew up with musical instruments. His father owned his own st
JEAN SEVERIN
2000 – 2002 Construction studies at the Academy of Music “Franz Liszt” Weimar
1996-2001 employed as violinmaker in Switzerland
and Germany (Kolja J. Lochmann )
1995 Mast
Atelier Judith Bauer.
“WHEN WOOD
BECOMES MUSIC.”
Pulling off fretboards, cutting open bridges or gluing open areas are my daily tasks. And I love to build new instruments according to ind
I was born in 1957 in Hagenau. As the son of an instrument maker, I discovered early on my love for this profession. Already at the age of 12, I carved my first violin flaps under the guidance of my f
Most of the instruments built by Burkhard Eickhoff are realizations of his own model designs. Since the 1990s he has only used spruce wood for the tops from the high valleys of the Dolomites, selecte
