Checklist of Bowed Stringed Instruments
Made by Members of the Meisel Family

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NMM 6053. Violin by Friedrich Wilhelm Meisel (1749-1814), Quittenbach, Saxony, 1772. Gift of Kurt Lothar and Patricia A. Meisel, Owatonna, Minnesota, 1997.

NMM 6052. Violin by Johann Georg Meisel (1765-1860), Klingenthal, Saxony, 1785. Gift of Kurt Lothar and Patricia A. Meisel, 1997.

NMM 6054. Violin by Carl Christian Meisel (1790-1876), Klingenthal, 1823. Gift of Kurt Lothar and Patricia A. Meisel, 1997.

NMM 6143. Violin by Carl Louis Meisel (1847-1905), Klingenthal, 1886. Gift of Kurt Lothar and Patricia A. Meisel, 1998.

NMM 6055. Violin by Friedrich August Meisel (1817-1898), Klingenthal, 1887. Gift of Kurt Lothar and Patricia A. Meisel, 1997.

NMM 6144. Violin by Karl Oswald Meisel (1878-1935), Klingenthal, 1927. Gift of Kurt Lothar and Patricia A. Meisel, 1998.

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NMM 14524. Violin (3/4-size) by Kurt Oswald Meisel (1903-1995), Klingenthal, Germany, 1928. Given in loving memory of Kurt Oswald Meisel by Lothar Meisel, Owatonna, 2010.

NMM 10454. Violin by Kurt Lothar Meisel (b. 1929), Klingenthal, Germany, 1947. Serial no. 3. Gift of Neal and Karin (Meisel) Steffenson, Owatonna, 2003.

NMM 10455.  Violin by Kurt Lothar Meisel (b. 1929), Birmingham, England, 1953. Serial no. 16. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Meisel, Columbia, South Carolina, 2003.

NMM 5620. Viola by Kurt Lothar Meisel (b. 1929), Lakewood, Ohio, 1955. Tertis model. Gift of Neal and Karin (Meisel) Steffenson, 1993.

NMM 5621. Viola by Kurt Lothar Meisel (b. 1929), Lakewood, 1956. Revised Tertis model. Gift of Kurt Lothar and Patricia A. Meisel, 1993.

NMM 6145. Violin by Kurt Oswald Meisel (1903-1995), Owatonna, Minnesota, 1965. Gift of Kurt Lothar and Patricia A. Meisel, 1998.

NMM 5876. Violin by Kurt Lothar Meisel (b. 1929), Owatonna, 1971. Gift of Kurt Lothar and Patricia A. Meisel, 1995.

NMM 5878. Viola by Kurt Lothar Meisel (b. 1929), Owatonna, 1975. Gift of Kurt Lothar and Patricia A. Meisel, 1995.

NMM 5877. Violin by Kurt Lothar Meisel (b. 1929), Owatonna, 1976. Gift of Neal and Karin (Meisel) Steffenson, 1995.

NMM 5879. Violoncello by Kurt Lothar Meisel (b. 1929), Owatonna, 1977-1978. Gift of Neal and Karin (Meisel) Steffenson, 1995.

NMM 6142. Viola by Kurt Lothar Meisel (b. 1929), Owatonna, 1979. Gift of Stephen Meisel, Columbia, 1998.

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NMM 14523. Violin by Kurt Lothar Meisel (b. 1929), Owatonna, 1991. Guarneri model. Gift of Neal and Karin Meisel Steffenson, Owatonna, 2010.

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NMM 14522. Violin by Kurt Lothar Meisel (b. 1929), Owatonna, 1992. Stradivari model. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Meisel, Columbia, South Carolina, 2010.

NMM 6146. Violin by Kurt Lothar Meisel (b. 1929), Owatonna, 1996. Gift of Kurt Lothar and Patricia A. Meisel, 1998.

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