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    Amati > Makers Archive > V > Charles Henry Vortreide

    Charles Henry Vortreide

    b. 1916

    Surgeon and amateur violin maker. Pupil of Clarence Buchanan, Eugene Saunders, and Frank Brown from 1930. Stradivari and Guarneri models. Michelman varnish. 42 instruments completed. [Wenberg] — John Dilworth
    Taught by Clarence Buchanan
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    John Dilworth+

    VORTREIDE, Charles Henry Born 1916 Toledo, Ohio, Worked Detroit, Michigan USA. Surgeon and amateur violin maker. Pupil of Clarence Buchanan, Eugene Saunders, and Frank Brown from 1930. Stradivari and Guarneri models. Michelman varnish. 42 instruments completed. [Wenberg]

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