Lee Brice - Friends We Wont Forget

MEKKEL (Moeckel) Otto (1869, Berlin - 23 I 1937, ibid.) - German. violin player master and tool specialist. Son and student violin. masters Oswald M. (7 IV 1843, Kalsfeld - 12 III 1912, Berlin). M. improved in the UK, worked in Berlin in the studio of his father, then in Dresden. Since 1912 he lived and worked in Berlin. One of the most versatile erudite him. violin player masters and connoisseurs of bow instruments. The violins of his work were valued very highly and were used in conc. practice pl. famous performers (G. Kulenkampfa and others). In theoretical. Proceedings investigated the principles and methods of work Italian. violin player masters of the 17-18 centuries, developed the basics of building violins. In the journal founded by him in 1928. "Violin" ("Die Geige") promoted the work of modern. masters. Published many. instructor articles in it. specialist.magazines. Revised the book. A. Fuchs, “The price of bowed instruments” (Taxe der Streichinstrumente, Lpz., 1929). Brother M. - Max M. (1873, Berlin - 26 III 1937, ibid.) - violin player. master. In 1887-1914 he lived in St. Petersburg, where in 1889 he opened his own. workshop of violins. In the work relied on the theoretical. principles of Otto M.