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Violin by Karl Oswald Meisel, Klingenthal, Saxony, 1927
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NMM 6144. Violin by Karl Oswald Meisel (1878-1935), Klingenthal, 1927. The maker used this particular violin while teaching performance practice at the Trade and Music School in Klingenthal. Gift of Kurt Lothar and Patricia A. Meisel, 1998.
Soundholes
Technical Information
Inscriptions:
- Printed on paper label with cut corners, the year written in black ink: 1927 [photograph of the maker in his studio] / KARL OSWALD MEISEL / KUNSTGEIGENBAUER, KLINGENTHAL i/V
- Branded on inside of back above label, in cursive: K. O. Meisel [tail of l underlines surname]
- Branded on insides of back and top below top block and above bottom block: K. O. MEISEL
- Branded on bridge, toward fingerboard: K.L. MEISEL
- Branded on bridge, toward tailpiece: OWATONNA/MINN.
Top: two-piece, quarter-cut spruce: fine grain; from Schwarzberg in the Vogtland.
Back: one-piece maple cut slightly off-the-quarter: broad curl ascending slightly from treble to bass; deep notches at button; from the Carpathian Mountains.
Ribs: quarter-cut maple: broad curl; rib corners slightly chamfered.
Head and Neck: maple: medium curl; inside of pegbox stained dark red-brown.
Edging: full, rounded edges.
Varnish: light golden.
Fingerboard: ebony.
Nut: ebony.
Tailpiece: ebony; black-stained pearwood saddle; raised gold-plated-brass lyre attached to surface; later.
Tailgut: transparent purple plastic; later.
Pegs: four rosewood with ivory pins; undercut heads; later, fitted by Lothar Meisel, made by Emil Lorenz, Bubenreuth, originally from Schönbach.
Saddle: ebony.
Endpin: rosewood with ivory pin; later, fitted by Lothar Meisel, made by Emil Lorenz, Bubenreuth, originally from Schönbach.
F-holes: lower wings channeled; inside edges stained dark red-brown.
Linings: spruce.
Corner blocks: spruce.
Pegbox and Scroll
Measurements
Back length: 360 mm
Upper bout width: 170 mm
Center bout width: 110 mm
Lower bout width: 210 mm
Upper rib height: 29-30 mm
Center rib height: 30 mm
Lower rib height: 30-31 mm
Total violin length: 596 mm
Stop length: 197 mm
Vibrating string length: 332 mm
Neck length (bottom of nut to ribs): 135 mm
Lit.: Julie Kucaj, "Lothar Meisel," Arts & Minds., Bravo! News Style Arts Channel, Toronto, January 30-31, 2003.
K. Lothar Meisel with Betty Vos, The Meisel Family Violin Makers: Klingenthal, Vogtland, Saxony (Ely, Minnesota: Singing River Publications, Inc., 2007), pp. 130-133.
The NMM preserves violins from each of eight generations of the
Meisel family.
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