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    Heinrich Ohlhaver

    Hamburg, worked 1921

    Devised various treatments and modifications applicable to all bowed instruments to give ‘Stradivari tone’. Despite endorsement from the Berlin Philharmonic the process was not widely taken up. — John Dilworth
    Worked Hamburg
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    OHLHAVER, Heinrich Worked circa. 1921 Sande, Hamburg Germany. Devised various treatments and modifications applicable to all bowed instruments to give ‘Stradivari tone’. Despite endorsement from the Berlin Philharmonic the process was not widely taken up.

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