Violins

Riccardo Bergonzi, born 1961 in Cremona, started playing violin at age nine and fell in love with the instrument. Bergonzi started working in the shop of the maker Stefano Conia,…

Jan Juzek was a Czechoslovakian violin maker. He exported many instruments to the United States from the Czechoslovak Musical Instruments company using the name John Juzek. Like many of Juzek’s…

Branded “MF” throughout the interior.

Ornati, Giuseppe; 1887-1965, Milano. Beginning his career as a “luitiao” making plucked instruments, i.e., mandolins and guitars, he made his first violin at age 13 and apprenticed to Luigi Montanari…

A fine example of this maker’s work as pictured and described in the book “Liuteria Piemontese – Annable Fagnola” by Accornero, Epicoco, and Guerci. The text reads as follows: “This…

This instrument is one of the special “Imitation” series by Degani which are copies of violins by his famous predecessors, in this case Antonio Stradivari. It is labeled “Imitazione /…