We have discussed, in the past, the mortized, sharpened and pointed linings running into the corner blocks.
Enough said... a German style.....although copied, apparently, by del Jesu, of all makers!
So, then, when the German maker builds this old cello, he fails to undercut the sides of the f holes, although that was a style, or his style...He flutes the lower wings, an unGerman flourish in the early 19th Century....so what?
He, or someone else, then, or later, places pins near the top and bottom of the back, to throw everyone, off of, or onto, the scent...
Retail, mostly privileged, customers, dilletantes, though very savvy and highly knowledgeable, surely would have smelled a rat, back in the beginning of the 19th Century, without those telltale pins!
Retail, mostly privileged, customers, dilletantes, though very savvy and highly knowledgeable, surely would have smelled a rat, back in the beginning of the 19th Century, without those telltale pins!
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