Guadagnini, The Strad Calendar 2012

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Our Price:  £19.95(Inc. 20% VAT) Model:  SC2012 Availability:   In stock, immediate despatch A Living Legacy: Historic Stringed Instruments at the Juilliard School  + £48.99 'Lachmann Schwechter' G.B. Guadagnini violin, 1776 Poster  + £14.95 G.B. Guadagnini viola, 1785 Poster  + £14.95

The 2012 Strad Calendar features a selection of fine violins, violas and cellos by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1711-1786), the great Cremonese violin maker who is widely considered to be third only to Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri ‘del Gesu’. The instruments illustrate the master's development as a luthier, and are drawn from his five key periods of production in Piacenza, Milan, Cremona, Parma and Turin.

Featured Instruments include:

‘Baron Knoop’ violin, 1744
‘Ex-Lorenzo’ violin, c.1745
‘Baron KÖhner’ violin, 1752
 Violin, 1753
‘Gerardy’ cello, 1754
‘Briggs’ violin, 1758
Cello, 1760
Violin, c.1768 
‘Accardo’ violin, c.1771
‘Campoli’,‘Grumiaux’ violin, 1773
‘Villa’ viola, 1781
Violin, 1784

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