Albert H. Karr
Bow maker / Violin maker
(1885 – 1971)
Albert H. Karr taught violin making by Silas Benjamin and John Hendershot starting in 1910. He was active in New York and later established himself in Kansas City from 1915. He subsequently moved to Independence, Missouri, to operate a dairy. At the government's request during World War II, he converted the dairy into a bow factory, producing over a million machine-made bows that were acquired by the government. He retired to Albuquerque, where he resumed violin making, utilizing Stradivari models and also creating copies of his own Guarneri del Gesù 1719 violin. Like the bows, some of the violins were partly machine-made, with 1, 336 completed. There are also records of some superior handmade bows.
Price History
- The auction record for this maker is $711 in Oct 2009, for a violin.
- 1 auction price results.
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