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Matthias Johann Kolditz

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John Dilworth

KOLDITZ (KOLDIZ), Matthias Johann Worked circa. 1710-1760 Munich Germany. Good work on low-arched model and Stradivari-derived form. Small scroll, sometimes with extra carved embellishment on the pegbox. Good red-brown varnish. Fine violas as well as violins; cellos occasionally with viol-like carved rosette above the soundholes. Mathias Joannes / Kolditz Lauten- und Geigenmacher / in München 1760 Mathias Joannes / Koldiz, lauten- und Gei- / genmacher in München. 1739

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