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$50,000 - $200,000 Fine, Rare Italian Instruments
$50,000 - $200,000 Fine, Rare Italian Instruments
As a professional violin shop, we carry rare and contemporary instruments.
We have Italian, French, German, and other makers in stock.
We have Italian, French, German, and other makers in stock.
1904 Leandro Bisiach, Milan
Gorgeous Italian violin made by Leandro Bisiach in 1904, Milan. This violin has the sound of a concert Stradivarius for a fraction of the cost.
"Leandro Bisiach was a talented craftsman and an astute businessman, and his shop was foremost in his country during his lifetime. Although many instruments bearing Bisiach's label can be attributed at least in part by other makers in the shop, his personal work is of a high quality, showing a fine understanding of his classical predecessors. Toward the end of his career the style becomes more heavy and less inspired; consequently, instruments before 1914 are especially sought after."
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Gorgeous Italian violin made by Leandro Bisiach in 1904, Milan. This violin has the sound of a concert Stradivarius for a fraction of the cost.
"Leandro Bisiach was a talented craftsman and an astute businessman, and his shop was foremost in his country during his lifetime. Although many instruments bearing Bisiach's label can be attributed at least in part by other makers in the shop, his personal work is of a high quality, showing a fine understanding of his classical predecessors. Toward the end of his career the style becomes more heavy and less inspired; consequently, instruments before 1914 are especially sought after."
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1845 Pierre Pacherele
Although French in nationality, Pacherele was heavily influenced by his master, Giovanni Francesca Pressenda, who is believed to be the finest maker of the Turin school. This violin was featured in The Strad in 2007 where Christoph Landon said that it was the finest example of a Pacherele he had ever seen.
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Although French in nationality, Pacherele was heavily influenced by his master, Giovanni Francesca Pressenda, who is believed to be the finest maker of the Turin school. This violin was featured in The Strad in 2007 where Christoph Landon said that it was the finest example of a Pacherele he had ever seen.
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Charles Adolphe Gand, France, 1854
"Son, pupil and successor of Charles Francois. Fervent and earnest in producing the best, had sympathies with the French school and large views for its advancement, a genius working quickly and unobtrusively. Appointed repairer, etc. to the King and the Conservatoire. Workmanship, inside and out, very neat and masterly. Orange shade of varnish, delightfully transparent and of soft texture." (Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers)
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Riccardo Antoniazzi, Italy, 1908
Riccardo
Antoniazzi
Antoniazzi
"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 exemplars -- 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)
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Carl Becker, America, 1946
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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Carlo Bisiach, Italy, 1924
Carlo Bisiach
"Born 1892. Son of Leandro. Co-operator with his father at Milan for several years. Established at Florence, 1926. Resplendent workmanship--often handsome slab backs and very fine grain for breasts--orange-red varnish." (Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers)
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Tommaso Carcassi, Italy, 1765
Tommaso
Carcassi
Carcassi
"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)
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Johannes Theodorus Cuypers, Holland, 1780
Johannes
Theodorus
Cuypers
Theodorus
Cuypers
"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)
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SOLD