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dictionary of violin makers, 1928
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1PULPANECK (Fritz) — Los Angeles (California). Born in 1878 at Koenigsberg (Germany). A wood carver in his youth, he was drawn towards instrument making and became a distinguished professional. He served his apprenticeship and afterwards worked for the best firms of Berlin, Leipzig and Dusseldorf. He went to America in 1904, carrying on his work in New-York until 1911. Since then he has been established in Los Angeles, where, thanks to his faithful reproductions after the old masters, Stradivarius and Guarnerius, to whom he gives preference, he enjoys a well deserved reputation. His oil or spirit varnish varies from gold-orange to Lupot brown-red. No 535.
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5REICHENBACHER (Johannes) — New-York (309 E. 9th St.). Contemporary maker.
7REINDAHL (Knute) — Madison (Wisconsin). Contemporary violin and bow maker.
9RETTBERG (Raoul) — Boston (2, Park Square). Contemporary bow maker.
11RETYNSKI (Benj.-A.) — Omatta (Nebraska). Contemporary maker.
13RICCARDI (G. & Co) — Buenos-Ayres (Argentina). (5183 Yerbal). Contemporary makers.
15RIFRY (Johannes) — Fribourg xviiith century.
17ROBINSON (Robert) — Portland (Oregon). Born at Wood County near Sandusky (Ohio) in 1850. Pupil of his father Robert E. Robinson, who himself was a good and capable craftsman. He made his first violin when sixteen years old. Realising that he needed more knowledge he undertook to travel through the United States. For seventeen years he journeyed from town to town, sojourning in the workshops of the best masters, twenty at the least, perfecting himself by association with the best workmen. His science is great and his works are the proof of it. Stradivari
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