LIGNALONE FIDDLE

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Permalink Reply by Craig Averill on November 6, 2009 at 10:08pm

Are you sure that it is not a Lignatone? I believe that the Lignatone violins were manufactured in Czechoslovakia. Is there anything else on the label or ticket inside?

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Permalink Reply by wendy on November 8, 2009 at 6:12am

you're right its a lingatone....cant see much else as the label is inside the fiddle and the cut out is fancy so it is hard to see anything.
do you know much about them?

Craig Averill said:

Are you sure that it is not a Lignatone? I believe that the Lignatone violins were manufactured in Czechoslovakia. Is there anything else on the label or ticket inside?

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Permalink Reply by Craig Averill on November 8, 2009 at 5:13pm

I know only a little. It seems that the Lignatone label was placed on manufactured instruments made in many different musical instrument shops in Czechoslovakia. These instruments were made for marketing in the Eastern Bloc (communist) nations. They offered quite an assortment of instruments bearing the Lignatone label including saxaphones, harmonicas, accordians, mandolins, guitars and the violin family. The Lignatone label was under the umbrella corporation of CSHN (I think that stands for: Czech-Slovak Musical Instruments). The communist era Czech violins fetch pretty sad reviews. The real value of the violin may be more sentimental rather than monetary. (I wish my grandpa would have given me a violin.)

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Permalink Reply by Erin Shrader on November 9, 2009 at 4:31pm

Hello,

I just had a look around. Lignatone, with a t, was a Czech instrument manufacturer. The company also made guitars, horns, accordions, etc. I found a few for sale in the $400 range, so that auction estimate sounds about right. Auction estimates are about half retail.

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