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Fine, Rare Italian Violins
PRICE RANGE: $50,000 - $200,000
| Pietro Antonio Landolfi |
Italy |
c. 1760 |
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Pietro Antonio Landolfi
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"Worked at Milan. Instruments often praised for their tone. Whatever splendid guesses or intuitive convictions these philosphic individuals may be inspired with, they cannot surely ignore the unclutivated instincts and roughly unfinished workmanship of this Landolfi." (Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers) |
| Johannes Theodorus Cuypers |
Holland |
1780 |
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Johannes Theodorus Cuypers
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"Jan (proper Christian name) has been styled the Stradivarius of Holland. Modelling generally based on that of a Strad, but occasionally reminding of Gagliano. Outline rather well conceived, and the slight arching shows considerable ingenuity in graduation....each instrument affords evidence of bold workmanship.....always very substantially built of good wood -- backs often cut in slab fashion and generally of pretty figure." (Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers) |
| Riccardo Antoniazzi |
Italy |
1908 |
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Riccardo Antoniazzi
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"Inborn talent, eagerness for knowledge and a discriminating mind impelled and drew him like a magnetic needle to emulate the Cremonese. In thought he placed himself in a position analogous to those examplars -- men who irretrievable committed themselves to do something which obliged them to do more, and which generated the necessity of doing all -- and, by adamantine application, he hoped to become one of the future exemplars. Given the world many instruments exhibiting perfect unison of craftsmanship with intellectual grasp of tonal utility, this tone being of that adequate brilliancy and requisite mellowness which attracts the soloist." (Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers) |
| Tommaso Carcassi |
Italy |
1765 |
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Tommaso Carcassi
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"Worked in Florence, 1735-1789. Workmanship shows correct and fine taste. Happy veneration for the Amati model, medium sized yet masculine, and a rather strict adherence to the mechanical proportions of that model. Medium high arching, gently graduated and with no accentuations near the edges - sincere resemblance to the early Cremonese school. Deep ribs and accurate purfling. Sound-holes mathematically perfect and well finished. Scroll perhaps a trifle effeminate, but a microscopic eye will not find a blemish in the carving. Tone of pleasing timbre, sometimes richly sympathetic but never very penetrating." (Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers) |
| Carl Becker |
America |
1946 |
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Carl Becker
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Carl Becker "Born at Chicago, 1887. Son of a well-known violin-teacher in that city. Worked with John Hornsteiner for 15 years and also worked for William & Sons at Chicago. Stradivarian and Guarnerian modelling. Every detail perfectly synchronised. Brown-orange shade of varnish entirely of own compounding of very soft texture, ensuring a lasting tone for future years. Ten or a dozen members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra use his instruments. Also the Selinger String Quartet Party." (Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers) |
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