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Original to the 1934 repair this is a nice looking violin, Given its age, repaired For Albert Warren by Cleon Kepley, Detroit 1934. Fine workmanship with well flamed two piece back, rib & neck. Tight, even grained spruce top; golden-brown varnish with nice transparency. I've been told Albert Warren was the head of the New York Lunacy Dept. in the turn of the century, this could explain why it needed repair by Cleon Kepley in 34. This thing could be a huge part of American History, own history and buy this violin.Ernst Heinrich Roth (1877-1948) was a German luthier and master of a large and successful violin-making workshop in the East German town of Markneukirchen, near the current border with the Czech Republic. He was the most important and distinguished figure in a whole dynasty of Roth luthiers active in Germany over many generations and to this day.Roth's father, the violin-maker Gustav Robert Roth, founded a violin shop in Markneukirchen in 1873. Ernst Heinrich was born there in 1877 and learned to play the violin, viola, cello, piano and trumpet. He had perfect pitch and absorbed an excellent sense of craftsmanship in his father's workshop. He travelled extensively to violin makers in Italy, Austria, Hungary, Russia and France in order to perfect his art.In 1902, at the age of 25, he started his own business, where over the years he worked in conjunction with apprentices, many of whom went on to become well-known violin makers in their own right. The exact extent of Ernst Heinrich Roth's involvement in the making of his instruments has long been a topic for debate, but it is now generally believed that the best instruments were made mainly by Roth himself. The instruments of the Ernst Heinrich Roth workshop were soon in demand all over Europe.
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