Otto Möckel

Fritz Tennigkeit: Otto Möckel in his workshop , around 1925 (Musikinstrumentenmuseum Berlin)

Otto Möckel (born May 10, 1869 in Berlin , † January 23, 1937 in Berlin) was a German violin maker .

Otto Möckel, together with his brother Max Möckel, was a student of his father Oswald Möckel and was considered one of the most important violin makers and experts in Berlin at the turn of the century and afterwards. In 1930 he wrote a widely acclaimed standard work on violin making, which is still available today after numerous editions and modernizations.

Möckel first described the process of copying the curvature of the ceiling and floor with the help of isohypses . Before doing this, arching templates were set at defined points and the wood was leveled until the arching was achieved. The new method with isohypses is more precise, and you can visually recognize any irregularities in the curve.

Fonts

• The art of violin making , Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1930

literature

• Alfred Berner:  Möckel, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 610 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Dagmar Droysen-Reber, Martin Elste & Gesine Haase: Craft in the service of music. 300 years of musical instrument making in Berlin. State Institute for Music Research Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-922378-06-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Möckel in the catalog of the German National Library