Mittenwald, Germany, Johannes Jais Violin   - germ064
Additional Information
Peter Ratcliff 


Purpose of Collection:  Archaeology, dating of musical instruments


Violin is in possession of Peter Ratcliff:
50 Brunswick Street West
Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1EL
United Kingdom
 

Notes:
Instrument is from the town of Mittenwald in Southern Germany, 
and the wood most likely local, central southern German border 
with Austria.  Wood is PCAB and the table is in one piece 
(as opposed to 2, hence the relatively long series.)

Johannes Jais Mittenwald 1823.  There are hundreds of matches 
with instruments, t=5.53 with Kerner 5.18 with Obersaxen chr.