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The Catgut Acoustical Society Library |
| File #: | R3140 |
| Name: | Reder, Otto |
| Dates: | d. 1978 |
| See also: | L8840 - Lottermoser, Werner |
| General Information: |
| An engineer, born in Madrid, living in Germany, Bremen-Lesum and then Baden-Baden. He had |
| followed the writings of F.A.Saunders and was much interested in the construction and acoustics of |
| violins. He was very good at getting people together and working with others; in the 1960s introduced |
| CMH and Schelleng to Prof Werner Lottermoser of the PTB in Braunschweig who had been |
| researching violins for many years; also to Dr. Jurgen Meyer who was at that time Lottermoser's |
| assistant; made possible an exchange of free violin plates for tuning as well as a completed violin for |
| comparative tests between Schelleng-CMH and Lottermoser-Meyer with many records of the effects of |
| changes. Reder had violins made by meister Hans Klotz of Mittenwald and Dietrich Liebenwein of |
| Baden-Baden with records on plate tones etc. and compiled free plate mode frequencies of many violins. |
| He made possible a good visit with Fernando Solar, violin maker, in Madrid. Otto Reder was an |
| enthusiastic member of the CAS, attended the first Mittenwald Symposium and wrote for the |
| NEWSLETTER. Ill health prevented him from travelling to the USA. |
| File Contents: |
| R3140 | -- | 101 |
| Correspondence: (1963-1978) involving Virginia Apgar, CMH, W Lottermoser, Erna Reder, Otto |
| Reder, F A Saunders and J C Schelleng. |
| Key Words: |
| R3140 | -- | 102 |
| Miscellaneous: Biog info; diagrams, brochures, charts. Technical: CASNL #13 `The Search for the |
| Perfect Bow'. |
| Key Words: | Bows | plate testing | violin acoustics. |