My service includes

Whether for soloists, orchestra musicians, or collectors: The demands for sound quality, playability, and value retention of your instruments are reliably met through meticulous craftsmanship. I offer you comprehensive expertise that preserves the character of your instrument and fully realizes its tonal potential.

Building of double basses and violone
Dismantling to the violone
Construction of bass bows: Baroque bow + classical bow

Focus of my work is the construction of double basses and violone.

Double Bass Building

Double bass - Violone - Achtfussviolone

Oskar Kappelmeyer double bass after Domenico Busan

Oskar Kappelmeyer double bass according to Sebastian Dallinger, Vienna, 18th century

Oskar Kappelmeyer Double bass Model Bologna, 18th century

Double bass model after Carlo Antonio Testore, Milan.

Eight-foot violone from Oskar Kappelmeyer, Passau

Violone by Oskar Kappelmeyer, five-string, after Johann Joseph Stadlmann Vienna 1748

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In short summary

About me

Training

In 1978 I started my apprenticeship in Cremona at the violin making school. After the first two years of school I switched to Hartmut Münzberg in Heiligenberg. There I finished my apprenticeship in 1981 with the journeyman's examination.

Then I went to Berlin to work together with Bastian Muthesius for 2 1/2 years in a common workshop.

Journeyman

I completed my journeyman's time

Gerhard Neubauer in Vienna (1 year)

Pierre Gerber in Lausanne (1 year) and

Harmut Münzberg in Heiligenberg (3 years)

Master exam in Stuttgart

In 1989 I passed my master examination in Stuttgart successfully. Since then I work independently in Passau.

Awards / Prizes

2018 Bass Lucca , Bassmaker’s competition , 2. Silver Medal

2016 Bass Prague, Bassmaker’s competition, 1. Gold Medal

2014 Bass Almere City , Bassmaker’s competition, 3. Bronze Medal

Oskar Kappelmeyer, master double bass and violin maker

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Address & Location

Address
Oskar Kappelmeyer
Innstadtbahnhofweg 1
94032 Passau

Coordinates:
N: 48º 34' 17.4" E: 13º 28' 13.2"
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Opening hours

By appointment

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Phone:
+49 (0) 851-33196

Email:
info@oskarkappelmeyer.de

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