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Joseph Fischer, Lütgendorff tells us, without mentioning his source, came to Regensburg from Vienna about 1790. Fischers instruments are relatively seldom, I speculate because at that time the violin makers gradually started to deal more and more with antique instruments, rather than making new ones. Lütgendorff speculates that they are relatively rare because many have been re- christened Italian. I have wondered, although not found out, if he were related to the Viennese maker Anton Fisher, who also dealt with old instruments so much so that his new ones were rare. His (Anton Fischer Vienna’s) main claim to fame was probably being Gabriel Lemböcks father-in-law. All four Engleder brothers, who were Fischers nephews, learnt with him. Andreas E. gets the best write ups of the four, although I have the impression that he was more the proprietor of the best 19th C. Munich shop. The last Engleder Munich violin I had being, in my opinion a Thumbhard from Straubing. Alois Engleder gets less laurels, but a cello in my front room shows him to be at the forefront of Vienna/Budapest Biedermayer violin making. There was further a Josef Engleder in Kelheim, which at the time was a major town on the Danube, but is nowadays more a suburb of Munich. He is also represented by a violin in my front room. The forth brother, Ludwig E. opened his own shop in Bamburg in 1835, but I have never seen a violin of his. Fischer was also the teacher of Petrus Schulz. The violin illustrated here is from1805, and is stylistically still set in the late 18th C. with a “Stainer” model interpretation, which one could in some ways think of as Viennese, except that it has very low ribs (27mm), and ribs cut on the slab (which make one think of Mittenwald) The ribs are built around a mould, with a one piece bottom rib (with “Mittenwald” notch). Pine blocks and linings, let into the corner blocks with a point. The scroll has a fairly robust curved pegbox, the fluting going to the “bitter end” of the throat. Otherwise the fiddle will be here until tomorow, should anyone want me to check out any other features.
