Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Heß, Wilhelm August

Historical maker

Named in 1 book.

What the books printed

Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, 1922. Page 214, scan 218.

Heß, Wilhelm August. — Klingenthal. 1810. 1830

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Same name

Heß, Bartholomeus
Breslau · 1585

Whether any of these is the same person, the books do not say.

Same town, same time

21 other Klingenthal makers have a year in the 1800s. A few of them:

died 1803 Meisel, Johann Christian Friedrich
1810 Hofman, David
1811 to 1892 Hopf, Carl Friedrich
1815 Glass, Christian Fried
1819 Meinel, August
1823 Guthmann, Friedrich Wilhelm

All Klingenthal makers

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