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

Tieffenbrucker, Duifffoprugcar

Lyon · 1553

Historical maker

Named in 1 book.

What the books printed

Tieffenbrucker [Duifffoprugcar], Kaspar (1514–71). Bavarian violin-maker, from at least 1553 working in Lyons; no absolutely certain examples are extant, but a few viols are ascribed to him. He seems to have belonged to a family otherwise associated with Italy. G.

Same name

Whether any of these is the same person, the books do not say. 4 more Tieffenbrucker pages under T.

Same town, same time

16 other Lyon makers have a year in the 1500s. A few of them:

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