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Was snakewood from South America readily available in Italy c1700?
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What kind(s) of wood would have been used for bows at the time of Stradivari in Italy?
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Who apart from the Cremonese installed separate bass bars? Were there any violin making traditions doing this without necessarily following the Cremonese example? Apart from other Italian schools of making - Milan, Naples, Venice - I'm thinking about French, English, German, Austrian and Bohemian traditions. Or did these all eventually "convert" to the Cremonese method from originally doing intergrated bars?
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Van de Geest had several labels, but it always had his name on it. The violin about which I posted has a faclimile Gagliano label in it, something which van de Geest never did.
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Thanks for all the responses, much appreciated.
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The back is cleated. The inside of the pegbox is varnished, not blackened. Here is another shot of a rib joint.
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LOB at back button over the arching 360mm.
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The joint is dead centre; I haven't had the top off, so I can't tell about the linings; no pin holes on the top.
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The rib figure running in the same direction all around; shape of the head; the amount of overhang on the corners; the rib corners; the fluting in the throat; the rib heights tapering from 31mm bottom bout up to the upper corners) to 29.5mm at the neck; the extremely close distance of the purfling to the edge; the top arching.
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Accidendal omission. It's been added.
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This one does not look like the average Markneukirchen product. Not French either. The label is a facsimile Alessandro Gagliano one. Any ideas?
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If one wants to speculate about the case and violin which accompanied the bow, I would guess about the 1920's. Parhaps even earlier.
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A customer waltzed in with it. Nice stick.
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