violin
Lodewich Wilhelm Roumen
built in Amsterdam in 1818
A violin built by Lodewich Wilhelm Johannes Roumen in Amsterdam, 1818.
History of this instrument
In 2004, the Musical Instrument Fund purchased this Roumen violin from a luthier in the Netherlands. Dirk Feller was the instrument’s first player. Annemarie van Prooien succeeded him and enjoyed playing the instrument for no less than ten years. Jessika Lukken was then granted the violin on loan, and the Amsterdam violin is currently in the possession of Lavanya Vossen.
About the builder Lodewich Wilhelm Roumen
The violin maker Lodewijk Roumen was born in Maastricht. He lived there for the first twenty years of his life and then moved to Kampen, Utrecht, Amsterdam, and finally back to Kampen once more. He presumably learned the craft from...
