Violin Forum/Message Board

Well, Verdi, you have received some feedback, and I think I'll leave you some more... think of it as food for thought.

Hi, just wanted to throw out a comment for some feedback.

Learning the viol ...

You would have to wait in line... the other violinist in our little group has the "hots" for it as well Surprised

What I'm really trying to find out is exactly who is/was Herbert Schmidt, Geig ...

Jack,

I did have a local maker here in Tucson look it over after I got it. His comments (as I posted above) pretty much paralleled yours. The one thing that is not obivious from the photos, which p ...

I don't have recording capability now, so I can't record a sound byte. I purchased it from a local music store that sells "fiddles" and not "violins".

Fair enough... here's three pics, front, back and side of scroll.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b172/TucsonBill/DSC_0145.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b172/TucsonBill/DSC_0146.jpg
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Well, I took it to my local luthier to have some minor work done. He said (at first) it looked like a nice German "trade" instrument. Then he kept looking... and looking... and looking...
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I recently upgraded to a new-to-me instrument, but the dealer (and I) couldn't find any information about the maker. The label says that it was completed in 1953 by Herbert Schmidt (somewhere in Germa ...

Simeon Chambers occasionally lists some sycamore backs. He is on Ebay as well as an Ebay store. I just looked and he has three sycamore backs for violins currently listed.

Bill Daniels