Maybe
you want to visit us and take a look at how much work we put in a well-made
instrument.
Dieter Egerland
He
is a maker of plucking instruments in the 4th generation in our
company, which was founded in 1871 by his great great grandfather. While today
we produce mainly plucking instruments, in the past the percentage of
accessories and inlays for the music industry was much higher.. But even
nowadays we still produce a small number of inlays , made from coloured wood and
mother-of-pearl, to embellish our hand crafted instruments.
Here you can see him working:
Working at a 21-stringed Renaissancelaute (lute)
Final tuning of a Rundlaute (lute) Nr. G10
Tuning of a Calace Mandoline (mandolin) Nr.66
Work on the corpus of a Balalaika
Fitting of the cover of a Balalaika
Restoration and repair of an Uod
Restoration of an old italian mandolin
Tobias Kaul
While he was already a well skilled violin maker he was trained in our company as a plucking instrument maker. In 2000 we set up a new workshop where he makes mandolins and other plucking instruments since then.
Snapshots of his work:
Measuring the covers of a Renaissance-Laute (lute)
Straightening of a mandolin fingerboard
Single stripes for the lute corpus are bend
Fitting of the trusses in a mandolin fingerboard
Making of a customized thuringian wood zither
Pieces are glued into a mandolin korpus