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Max Grossmann

Highest auction price

£4,800

Auction price history
Type Details Sold Price
Violin 35.6 cm 1910 Mon 1st March 2010 £4,800
Cello 75.5 cm Berlin,1908 Sun 1st July 2007 £3,360
Cello 1910 Thu 1st June 2000 £2,875
Violin 1908 Fri 1st December 1989 £1,012
Biographies

John Dilworth

GROSSMANN, Max Born 1856 Jastrowie Poland. Studied acoustics in Berlin and evolved a method of plate tuning. Working with Otto Seifert, he produced ‘New Cremona Violins’ (also violas and cellos) from 1904, using this principal with some success. Published Die theorie der harmonischen Abstimmung der Resonanzplatten bei der Geige und die hauptsachlichseten Einwande dagegan (Berlin, 1907), Es gibt doch ein Geheimnis der alten italienischer Geigenbauer (Berlin, 1898) and several other volumes. Three of these collected and translated into English as New Cremona (London, 1908).

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