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unusual facts about violin maker



Giuseppe Bernardo Lecchi

Giuseppe Bernardo Lecchi (b. Felizzano 20 August 1895– d. Genoa 24 August 1967) was an Italian violin maker.

Loeiz Honoré

Loeiz Honoré (born 26 January 1961 at La Guerche de Bretagne, France) is a violin maker living in Cremona, Italy since 1978.

Simone Fernando Sacconi

Simone Fernando Sacconi (Rome, May 30, 1895 – Point Lookout, June 26, 1973) was an expert Italian violin maker and restorer who studied fellow luthier Antonio Stradivari extensively during his lifetime.


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12275 Marcelgoffin

It was named in honour of Marcel Goffin (1913-1999), an accomplished amateur violin maker living in Hoboken, Belgium.

1520s in music

Andrea Amati, Italian violin maker, who stands as the first of the Cremona school (d. c.1578)

Albert Frost

He assisted with the British contribution to the 1987 exhibition of Stradivari instruments in Cremona to commemorate the great violin maker's 250th anniversary; and in 2005 he helped the Royal Academy of Music to purchase the "Viotti ex-Bruce" Stradivarius.

Dylana Jenson

Eventually, however, Yo Yo Ma, the preeminent cellist of his era, referred her to Samuel Zygmuntowicz, a contemporary master violin maker in Brooklyn, NY, who has made sound-alike copies of great antique Stradivarius and Guarnerius violins for such violin superstars as Isaac Stern and Joshua Bell.

Maurice Parker

Maurice W. Parker, Sr. (1873–1958), voice coach, marksman, billiard champion, and violin maker

Player preferences among new and old violins

Samuel Zygmuntowicz, a noted violin maker, however said the study is "highly credible" and that it "puts cold water on some old myths and should certainly be good news to young musicians who yearn for violins that they will never afford."