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Hello!
Thank you for visiting my site. Antique guitars, as opposed to violins, are very badly documented. Maybe you will find this to be a small contribution of information.
Collectors are rather strange people, especially as far as restauration is concerned. On the one hand you have the museum directors who collect the pieces of broken instruments to display them, as they are, in a glass case . On the other hand you have the collectors who expect that an instrument that is possibly a few hundred years old should look as if it was made only yesterday, and where possible also have an expert`s report that the instrument was played by Julius Caeser!
I feel that my role falls somewhere in the middle of the two. Instruments, for me, are not something that should be relegated to spending their lives in a glass showcase, they should also live and make sounds.
To that is the fact that a restauration is hard to get around. But no restauration that produces something perfect and new. It doesn`t bother me to see cracks that have been repaired, exactly the opposite, it gives the instrument so much more charm. I also don't have anything against new fingerboards, frets, etc. - things that have been renewed umpteen times in the long life of an old guitar.
What ever - maybe by looking at the photos, and listening to the wonderful music from Wenzl Tomas Matiegka, played by Hans Kockelmans you will be able to submerse yourself into the world of the early romantic.
Hello!
Thank you for visiting my site. Antique guitars, as opposed to violins, are very badly documented. Maybe you will find this to be a small contribution of information.
Collectors are rather strange people, especially as far as restauration is concerned. On the one hand you have the museum directors who collect the pieces of broken instruments to display them, as they are, in a glass case . On the other hand you have the collectors who expect that an instrument that is possibly a few hundred years old should look as if it was made only yesterday, and where possible also have an expert`s report that the instrument was played by Julius Caeser!
I feel that my role falls somewhere in the middle of the two. Instruments, for me, are not something that should be relegated to spending their lives in a glass showcase, they should also live and make sounds.
To that is the fact that a restauration is hard to get around. But no restauration that produces something perfect and new. It doesn`t bother me to see cracks that have been repaired, exactly the opposite, it gives the instrument so much more charm. I also don't have anything against new fingerboards, frets, etc. - things that have been renewed umpteen times in the long life of an old guitar.
What ever - maybe by looking at the photos, and listening to the wonderful music from Wenzl Tomas Matiegka, played by Hans Kockelmans you will be able to submerse yourself into the world of the early romantic.
