Roman Boianciuc (sometimes Boiangiuc) (7 November 1912, Vășcăuți, Russian Empire - 2009?) was one of the most important

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luthiers. In 1951 he founded the state-owned

Hora (company) S.C. Hora S.A. (trade name: Hora Instruments) is a Romanian manufacturer of string instruments. The company, based in Reghin, was founded in 1951 around the workshop of master luthier Roman Boianciuc as a state-owned enterprise. Over 80% of i ...

in the city of Reghin. He was a disciple of Alexandru Apăteanu (b. 1886, Dorohoi), who in turn learned the violin from Anton Uhlschmidt of Schönbach (Zdislava, Czech Republic). The font used by them was that of the Stradivarius violins, with yellow or red oil varnish. In 2010 he was declared post-mortem a citizen of honor of Reghin.

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