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Georg Piegendorfer

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PIEGENDORFER, Georg Born 1849, died 1906 Augsburg Germany. Active from 1880. Awarded first prize at the Augsburg Exhibition 1886. Succeeded in business by O. Ebner 1906. Fine work on Stradivari and Guarneri models. Good golden-brown varnish. Cellos and various plucked instruments also known. Author of Die Schwäbischen Geigenbauer vom Jahre 1600 bis auf unsere Zeit (Leipzig, 1895). Gg. Piegendorfer / fece in Augsburg. 1898

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