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Museums and collections

In our dendrochronological database there are dated instruments of international collections. Among others:

• Mittenwald Violin Museum
• Museo del violino Cremona
• Gemeente Museum Den Haag
• Musical Instrument Museum Bruxelles
• Orpheon Foundation
• Maggini Foundation
• Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
• Cité de la musique Paris
• Deutsches Museum München
• Museum Vleeshuis Antwerp

Instrument makers

Our dendrochronological database consists of the measurements of violins, violas, cellos, double basses, guitars, lutes, viola da gambas, virginals, harpsichords and pianos. A selection of over 500 instrument makers can be found in the list below:

Philip Achner, Hendrick Aernick, Guiseppe dall’Aglio, Nicolas D’Aine, Matthias Alban, Ferdinando Alberti, Jean Francois Aldric, Paul Alletsee, Augustin Altimira, Julius Altrichter, Georg Aman, Andrea Amati, Antonius & Hieronymus Amati, Antonius Amati, Hieronymus Amati, Nicolaus Amati, Dom Nicolo Amati, Erhard Amman, Ricardo Antoniazzi, Romeo Antoniazzi, Georges Apparut, Leo Aschauer, Hendrik Asseling, Victor Audinot, Pierro Badalassi, Dészö Bárány, Stephan von Baehr, Paul Bailly, Luigi Bajoni, Ista Balacz, Giusseppe Baldantoni, Tommaso Balestrieri, Paolo Barbieri, Jospeh Bassot, Fritz Bauer, Vittorio Bellarosa, Anselm Bellosio, Joseph Beltramus, Laszlo Benedek, Peter Benedek, Carlo Bergonzi, Nicolo Bergonzi, Michelangelo Bergonzi, Zosimo Bergonzi, Auguste Sébastien Phillipe Bernardel, Leon Bernadel, Gustav Bernadel, John Betts, Leandro Bisiach, Karl Bitterer, Louis Ferdinand Billetot, Bartelomeo Bimbi, Nicolas Blanchett, Dierich Bochem, Giovanni Battista Bodio, Claude Boivin, Michael Boller, Pierre Boom, Jacques Boquay, Gaspard Borbon, Willem Bouman, Jan Boumeester, Joseph Benoit Boussu, William Bowcliffe, Karl Brandl, Francois Breton, Andrew Brown, Frits Brückner, Gabriel David Buchstetter, Joseph Bünnagel, Domenico Busan, Charles Buthod, Bernado Calcani, Camillo Camilli, Cesare Candi, Aldo Capelli, Marino Capicchioni, Gioffredo Cappa, Lorenzo Carcassi, Tomaso Carcassi, Carlo Carletti, Natale Carletti, Andrea Castagneri, Paolo Castello, Petrus Antonius Cati, Giuseppe Cavaleri, Enrico Catenar, Francois Caussin, Enrico Ceruti, Giovanni Battista Ceruti, Giuseppe Ceruti, Georges Chanot, Joseph Anthony Chanot, Nicolas Augustin Chappuy, Carlo Chericoni, Alessandro Ciciliati, James Coole, Jean Couchet, Georges Craske, Nathaniel Cross, Charles Collin-Mezin, Ambroise de Comble, Stefano Conia, Alfredo Contino, José Contreras, Jean Couchet, Johann Bernardus Cuypers, Johann Franciscus Cuypers, Johann Theodorus Cuypers, Johann Dänzler, Matthias Dahl, Sebastian Dallinger, Mario Daoglio, Alexandre D’Espine, Pier Antonio Dalla Costa, Michele Deconet, Stephanus De Fantis, Eugenio Degani, Giulio Degani, Alexandre Delannoy, Laurentius Josephus De Ligné, Louis Denis, Philippe Denis, Justin Amadé Derazey, Giuseppe Desiato, Rafaello Desideri, Gilbert Desruisseaux, Marius Didier, M. Diehl, Luigi Digiuni, Dmytro Didtschenko, Thomas Dodd, Giovanni Dodi, Giovanni Dollenz, Nicolaus Döpfer, Michael Dötsch, Nicolas Dumont, Richard Duke, Wilhelm Düren, Carolus Dvorak, Johan Uldrich Eberle, Tomasso Eberle, Heinrich Ebert, Richard Edler, Aloys Engläder, Francisco Espana,Luigi Fabris, Annibale Fagnola, Celestino Farotto, Alexander Ferenzcy, Karl Ferenczy-Tomasovzsky, Johan Gottlob Ficker, Giuseppe Fiorini, Raffaele Fiorini, Zacharias Fischer, Benoit Fleury, Simon Andrew Forster, William Forster, Claude Fougerolle, Rodolfo Fredi, Giovanni Baptista Gabrielli, Mario Gadda, Johann Josef Gändl, Johann Gäßler, Giuseppe Gaffino, Alessandro Gagliano, Antonio Gagliano, Ferdinando Gagliano, Gaetano Gagliano, Ioannes Gagliano, Giuseppe Gagliano, Nicolo Gagliano, Rafaelle Gagliano, R.&A. Gagliano, Giovanni Battista Gaibissi, Charles Gaillard, Charles Francois Gand, Gand frères, Gand & Bernadel, Eugen Gärtner, Johann Anton Gedler, Johann Benedict Gedler, Giacomo Gennaro, Franz Geissenhof, Georges Gemunder, Joseph Germain, Giulio Cesare Gigli, Alberto Giordano, Andrea Gisalberti, Friedrich August Glaesel, August Glier, Francesco Gobetti, Francesco Goffriller, Matteo Gofriller, Jakob Heinrich Goldt, Jean Gosselin, Anselmo Gotti, Goulding, Antonio Gragnani, Francesco Grancino, Giovanni Battista Grancino, Jules Joseph Grandjon, Carl Grimm, Lodewijck Grouwels, Francesco Guadagnini, Gaetano Guadagnini, Giuseppe Guadagnini, Johannes Baptista Guadagnini, Andrea Guarneri, Giuseppe Guarneri fil. Andreae, Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu, Pietro Guarneri Mantua, Pietro Guarneri Venezia, Evasio Emilio Guerra, Louis Guersan, Florenus Guidantus, Juan Guillami, Wilhelm Theodor Gutermann, Joseph Hamberger, Christ. Gottfried Hamm, Heinz Hammig, Johann Christian Hammig, Hart & son, Istvan Havas, Heinrich Theodor Heberlein, Karl Heckel, Matthias Heinicke, Pierre Joseph Hel, Johann Josef Held, Carolus Hellmer, Jonas Heringer, Joseph Hill, William E. Hill, Ludwig Höfer, Mathijs Hofmanns, Emanuel Adam Homolka, David Hopf, Kaspar Hopf, Jacob Horil, Anthoni Hornsteiner, Franz Hornsteiner, Martin Hornsteiner, Matthias Hornsteiner, Anton Horváth, Christian Gottfried Hoyer, Thomas Andreas Hullinsky, J.A. Hümmer, Vincenzo Iorio, Hendrik Jacobs, Albert Jacquot, Charles Jacquot, Andreas Jais, Anton Jais, Franz Jais, Wilhelm Thomas Jaura, Wasil Jiwkow, J.A. Kämbl, Paul Kaul, Thomas Kennedy, Xavier Kerschensteiner, Heinrich Kessler, Johann Christian Kinpolth, Cornelius Kleynman, Aegidius Klotz, Carolus Klotz, Georg Klotz, Georg Klotz II, J.C. Klotz, Joseph Klotz, Joseph Anton Kloz, Mathias Klotz, Michael Klotz, Sebastian Klotz, Knäuscher, Josef Knitl, Franz Knittl, Paul Knorr, Friedrich Kochendörfer, Mathias Johann Kolditz,Simon Kriner, Johan Künzl, Jean-Nicolas Lambert, Jan Lamgejus, Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, Pietro Antonio Landolfi, Alfred Lang, Heinrich Lang, Robert Laumann, Johann Georg Leeb, Jean Baptiste Lefèbvre, Alfred Leicht, Johann Christoph Leidolff, Nicolaus Leidolff, Martin Leißmiller, Gabriel Lemböck, Konrad Leonardt, Carl Limprecht, Johann Gottfried Lippold, Francesco Linarolo, Ventura Linarolo, Johann Georg Lippold, Hyacinte Lorret, Giusepp Luci, François Lupot, Nicolas Lupot, Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Pietro Giovanni Mantegazza, Giuseppe Maravelli, Enrico Marchetti, J.A. Marchi, Rodolfo Marchini, Antonio Mariani, Jean Marius, Charles Maucotel, Francesco Maurizi, Leonhard Maussiell, Johann Christian Matern, Leo Mayer, Jakob Meinertzen, Christian Friedrich Meisel, Enrico Melegari, Emil Menesson, Stefan Metzker, Alessandro Mezzadri, Johann Michl, Luigi Mingazzi, C.A. Miremont, Otto Möckel, Max Möller, Louis Moitessier, Domenico Montagnana, Léon Mougenot, Arent van Munster(?), Samuel Nemessànyi, Neuner & Hornsteiner, Matthias Neuner, Sympertus Niggell, Luis Noebe, Carl Giuseppe Oddone, Louis Otto, Jean Ouvrard, Pierre Pacherel, Pietro Pallotta, Vincenzo Trusiano Panormo, Joseph Panormo, Romolo Parmegiani, Christianus Franciscus Partl, Bartolomeo Pasta, Giuseppe Pedrazzini, Giuseppe Francesco Pelizon, Johann Gottlob Pfretzschner, Gasparo Piattelini, Marcel Pichler, Claude Pierray, Vladimir Pilar, Paul Pilat, Francois Pillement, Claude Pirot, Giovanni Pistucci, Francois Louis Pique, David Pizzurno, Johann Franz Placht, Ansaldo Poggi, Gaetano Polastri, Anthony Posch, Andrea Postachini, Vincenzo Postiglione, Giovanni Francesco Pressenda, Giovanni Battista Priore, Ladislav Prokop, Franciscus Maria Pupunatius, János Racsinky, Jakob Rauch, Johannes Rauch, Anton Rieger, Stephan Rieger, Johan Reiter, Mihaly Remény, Michel Richard, Giacomo Rivolta, Enrico Rocca, Giuseppe Antonio Rocca, G.B. Rogeri, Pietro Giacomo Rogeri, Pieter Rombouts, Hans Ruckers d.Ä., Ioannes Ruckers, Vincenzo Rugieri, Francesco Rugieri, Georg Ruoff, Wilhelm Ruprecht, Jean Baptiste Dehayes Salomon, Gasparo da Salò, Luca Salvadori, Nicolaus Sawicki, Stefano Scarampella, Matthäus Friedrich Scheinlein, Christian Schertel, Johan Scheverle, Christian Schlosser, Carl Schneider, Johann Schropp, Johan Baptist Schweitzer, Antal Schwerer, Renato Scrollavezza, Iginio Sderci, J.G. Seelos, Otto Seifert, Giorgio Seraphin, Sanctus Seraphin, Paul Serdet, Gaetano Sgarabotto, Antonio Siciliano, Silvestre & Maucotel, Johann Michael Simman, Ettiene Simonet, Anton Sitt, Egidius Snoeck, Marcus Snoeck, Laurentius Sommer, Luigi Soffritti, Janos Spiegel, Gosewyn Spijker, Ettore Soffritt, Angelus Soliani, Spiritus Sorsana, Daniel Achatzius Stadlmann, Jacobus Stainer, Johann Georg Stauffer, Lorenzo Storioni, Martin Stos, Antonio Stradivari, Francesco Stradivari, Ombono Stradivari, Casper Strnad, Jinsrich Stumpf, Willem van der Syde, Bela Szeppesy, Giovani Georgio Taningard, Giuseppe Tarantino, Giuseppe Tarasconi, David Tecchler, Eugen Tenucci, Carlo Antonio Testore, Carlo Giuseppe Testore, Paolo Antonio Testore, Jacques Pierre Thibout, Vincent Tibaut, Jerome Thibouville-Lamy, Antonius Thir, Mathias Thir, Johan Georg Thir, Charles & Samuel Thompson, Peter Thompson, Johann Stefan Thumhardt, Joachim Tielke, Carlo Tononi, Carlo Anibale Tononi, Giovanni Tononi, János Tóth, William Turner, Gregorgius Ullman, Johannes Maria Valenzano, Pier Lorenzo Vangelisti, Johannes Varotti, Jean Cornelius Vauchel, Lorenzo Ventapane, Vincenzo Ventapane, Gysbert Verbeek, André Vigneron, Januarius Vinaccia, Joahnn Georg Vogler, Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, Nicolas-François Vuillaume, Benedict Wagner, Jacob Weiß, Gallus Ignatius Widhalm, Leopold Widhalm, Martin Leopold Widhalm, Hendrik Willems, Johann Michael Willer, Anton Winter, Georg Winterling, Anton Wittmann, Gebrüder Wolff, Albin Wolfram, George Wulme-Hudson, Alexandre Xheneumont, Carl Zach, Peregrino Zanetto, Giovanni Battista Zanoli, Hieronimus de Zentis, Valentino De Zorzi, Anton Zwerger.