Celebrating Leopold Widhalm (1722 – 1786)

Posted on November 29th, 2015 by


Celebrating a violin by Leopold Widhalm (1722 – 1786) of Nuremberg, Bavaria. This violin, which is the property of a renowned collector, will be used by Peter Sheppard Skaerved, to record Schubert Sonatas (1816), in December 2015

Scroll

Scroll

The violin has an elegant, almost alarmingly precisely cut fruit-wood scroll.

Playing the Widhalm with a F X Tourte Bow (Ca 1770)

Playing the Widhalm with a F X Tourte Bow (Ca 1770)

 

Bass-side F Hole

Bass-side F Hole