violin
Martin Leopold Widhalm
built in Nuremberg in 1783
A violin built by Martin Leopold Widhalm in Nuremberg in 1783.
Current player
Noa Eyl
from Martin Leopold Widhalm
History of this instrument
A private individual donated this German violin, dating from 1783, to the Musical Instrument Fund in 1992. In 2006, when the violin had to be taken apart for repairs, two inscriptions were discovered. The first reads, “This violin was played in the Basilica of Oudenbosch in den Koepel,” and the second is somewhat more prosaic: “Found in 20 pieces, repaired by A.C. Scheepers, Roosendaal, January 1935.” We’ll probably never find out who played this violin in the Koepel in Oudenbosch or what happened to it, but what we do know is that Noa Eyl has been playing the violin since 2005 and is very happy with it!
About the builder Martin Leopold Widhalm
Martin Leopold Widhalm grew up in Gostenhof, a neighborhood just outside the city walls of Nuremberg. Gostenhof was popularly known as a “Pfuscher Nest”—a neighborhood where charlatans and vagabonds lived outside the protection of the...
