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Selling some viennese/german romantic guitars, mostly early 20th century
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I possess a small collection of historic "Viennese guitars". Some of them I found on fleemarket or in second hand shops, from ads or private contact, in Vienna. Only three of them bear…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Edgar Aichinger Feb 9, 2020.
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"Dear Jelma,
I am aware of the fact, the group description on the main page says "up to 1850".
Nevertheless I took the liberty to post here as I think these guitars are pretty similar to some of those earlier Biedermeier ones by Stauffer…"
"Hello Edgar,
These are somewhat outside the scope of this website, but maybe people are interested anyway. Maybe you could start out by giving the information that is on the labels, where available?"
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Selling some viennese/german romantic guitars, mostly early 20th century
I possess a small collection of historic "Viennese guitars". Some of them I found on fleemarket or in second hand shops, from ads or private contact, in Vienna. Only three of them bear maker/seller/factory labels.I've repaired most of what needed to be fixed, using bone/hide glue. This mostly means filling cracks in the top with shims of spruce, re-glueing or bridges, making bone nuts where the original wooden nut was damaged, replacing missing ornaments (like the MOP eyes at he end of a "grin"…See More
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- I am an amateur and self taught guitarist with interest in early music. I play all kinds of plucked string instruments, at intermediate level, in different tunings, from vihuela to baroque lute to electric guitar and folk instruments like croatian tamburica.
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- At 2:26 on August 17, 2020,
Tommy Fu said…
Hey, Edgar!
Sent u a PM :)
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