oldcellow Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 (edited) Hi everyone...first post and what a great forum, so interesting. I'm 62 and have been given a 3/4 German Musima Cello. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about it....Im a beginner and it was local to me and as a musician, piano, bass, drums it feels pretty nice. Strings may be a little high but nothing I cant fix. I'm just rather fascinated by it as it clearly has an olde cracked lacquer finish and not a plasticy type of coating often associated with modern cheap instruments. Grateful Edited January 10 by oldcellow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobsaunders Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 Musima – Wikipedia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratcliffiddles Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 25 years ago, I used to work in a shop that did a lot of rentals, and a proportion of the stock were Musima, mostly plywood, and yes, the varnish used to crack all over after a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blank face Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 From the Kauert book ""Vogtländisch-westböhmischer Geigenbau". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guido Posted January 12 Report Share Posted January 12 I know someone who worked there during this time. A worker's target was to make 10 white violins per week from per-milled parts. Someone else sprayed the varnish, and someone else did the set-ups. Guess that's the lass in the picture :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcellow Posted January 12 Author Report Share Posted January 12 Very interesting everyone and thks for the replies. I don't really know if its a good instrument or not..I've filed the nut slots to ease the string pressure and it appears to be ebony or a very hard blackwood....not bad for a cheap instrument, tho cant say it sounds terribly open ...C and G seem a bit muffled but D and A are very crisp. Ive got the strings nice and low now and it plays very easily...it'll do for now until I get better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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