Absam

5 makers. The earliest year printed is 1621, the latest 1750.

Every maker here has Absam in a printed line.

1600s

• 1621 to 1683 Stainer, Jacob
  STAINER, JACOB, a celebrated German violin-maker, born at Absam, a village near Hall, about one German mile from Innsbrück, July 14, 1621; died 1683. According to one story, the boy had a love of music, whic…
• about 1650 Stainer, Andrea
  STAINER (Andrea) — Absam circa 1650. Probably a relative of Jacob Stainer. Little known.
• 1660 to 1690 Stainer, Andreas
  Stainer, Andreas. Was working in Absam about 1660. He made few violins, if any; he is supposed to have made barytons

1700s

• about 1750 Reichel, Johannes-Gottfried
  REICHEL (Johannes-Gottfried) — Absam circa 1750. Model after Stainer, whose pupil he claims to be according to his labels. Dark red-brown varnish. The best maker of the family of this name, numbering no less than forty members.

No year printed

• no year Reichel, Johann Gottfried
  Reichel, Johann Gottfried, brother of Johann Conrad. Was a maker in Absam. He was a pupil of Stainer and copied his pattern, but his work is rough, and he used red-brown varnish of poor quality. Label: "Johann Gottfried Reichel . . . arfunden von Jacob Stainer in Apsam."

The books that name them

• Dictionary of Violin makers, Arnold Sewell, 1928
• A dictionary of violin makers, Stainer, 1896
• A Dictionary of music and musicians : (A.D. 1450-1880), 1880

Some names appear twice under different spellings. Each is one book's spelling.