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LIGNALONE FIDDLE

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?

Replied Nov. 8, 2009

LIGNALONE FIDDLE
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i have a lignalone fiddle and bow in a case which my grandfather gave me. i was told by my mother that is is worth a bit of money!! i have since had it looked at by an auction house but they have onl…

Started this discussion. Last reply by Erin Shrader Nov. 10, 2009.

 

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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 estimat…
November 9, 2009
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…
November 8, 2009
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?
November 8, 2009
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?
November 6, 2009
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i have a lignalone fiddle and bow in a case which my grandfather gave me. i was told by my mother that is is worth a bit of money!! i have since had it looked at by an auction house but they have only valued it at between £80-£120. i cannot find any…
November 6, 2009
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