Carl Wilhelm. SODERBERG

SODERBERG, Carl Wilhelm. Born 1876 Gothenburg Sweden, Worked circa. 1924 Oslo Norway. Electro-metallurgist. Trained in violin making by Volker of Hanover. Worked fairly intensely up to 1924. Later preoccupied with his scientific career. Small output, many instruments said to have failed to meet the maker’s own expectations and destroyed in the workshop. Personal or Stradivari- and Guarneri-derived models with very good golden-brown varnish. C. W. Soderberg / fecit / Norvegia 19.. No.. [Henley]