Lauren
Amanda
Garrett

Lauren's Gear

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Last updated:  2024 August 23

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Bows:

• LUPOT Pernambuco copy - est. manufacture 1917
   

• Stravari Pernambuco VPO-W/S
  (http://stravari.com/bows-cello/) 
   

• CodaBow Classic Professional Carbon fiber
  (this model is no longer manufactured - website anyway https://www.codabow.com/)
   

• I also have two other ‘back up’ octagonal pernambuco wood bows of unknown manufacture and origin.
  
  
   

Acoustic Fiddle:

• Unknown Manufacture*
  (no maker's mark; Hopf body with single-panel maple back)
  est. manufacture 1830s, Germany
   

• Prim Strings
  (https://fiddlershop.com/products/prim-violin-set)
   

• Ebony fittings and fingerboard
   

• Wittner Tailpiece
  (https://fiddlershop.com/products/wittner-ultra-violin-tailpiece)
  
   

Acoustic/Electric Fiddle:

• Unknown Manufacture*
  (1786 on label visible from left f-hole, 1895 written visible from the right f-hole)
   

• Pick Up The World pickup
  (https://www.pickup.world/product/violin/)
   

• D’Addario Helicore Strings
  (https://www.daddario.com/products/orchestral/violin/helicore-violin/helicore-violin-string-set-44-scale-medium-tension/)
   

• Ebony fittings and fingerboard

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Electric Fiddle:

• Mark Wood Stingray SVX4 in Candy Apple Red
  (http://www.woodviolins.com/stingray/)
   

• Thomastik-Infeld Spirit! Strings
  (https://www.thomastik-infeld.com/en/products/orchestral-strings/violin/spirit)
   

• Ebony fittings and fingerboard

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Acoustic Classical Violin:

• Kallo Bartok (2007)
  (https://www.stringworks.com/collections/professional-violins/products/kallo-bartok-violin)
   

• Boxwood fittings
   

• Ebony Fingerboard

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Amp for Street Performance:

• Danelectro HoneyTone Mini Amp
  (https://danelectro.com/accessories/honeytone-mini-amp/) 

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Amplifier

• Marshall AS50D
  (https://marshall.com/marshall-amps/products/amps/acoustic/as50d)  

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Rosin:

• Magic Rosin
  (https://www.theviolinshop.com/accessories/magic-rosin)

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* The label inside of the fiddle reads:

COPY OF

Antonius Stradiuarius

Made in Germany 1786

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Anyone who knows about 'factory' violin manufacture knows that there are hundreds of thousands (perhaps even millions) of violins around the world bearing such a mark.  The luthier who repaired this instrument in 2014 told me that it is probably a copy of several iterations of a copy of the Stradivari design. 

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I do not know where the violin was made; common sense tells me that it was made for English-speaking markets, since the label is written in English.  Curiously, it was made in Germany … but where?  The origin of my fiddle remains a mystery; though it has a beautiful tone for the purpose of my fiddling skills and I love it dearly.

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It is possible that the violin was made in either Mittenwald or Markneukirchen.  See the following links for more information:

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Mittenwald:

https://www.corilon.com/us/library/towns-and-regions/mittenwald-violin-making-in-the-midst-of-the-forest

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Markneukirchen:

https://www.corilon.com/us/library/towns-and-regions/markneukirchen-violin-making-in-german-cremona

 

My emailed inquiry to Corilon received the following response:

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“copy of” labeled instruments are usually Saxony or Bubenreuth manufactured, no named, and of basic quality and value

 

Bubenreuth makers were highly active from 1920 through about the mid-1970s, which is too late a time frame, if the 1895 figure written inside the fiddle is to be believed.