The Anoniazzi Influence Gaetano Antoniazzi, pupil of Enrico and Giuseppe Ceruti, brought the Cremonese tradition of his teachers to Milan in 1870. Gaetano Antoniazzi, along with his sons Riccardo and Romeo, trained Leandro Bisiach, and together with the Antoniazzis, Bisiach influenced the creation of a workshop environment that was to dominate early 20th Century Italian violinmaking. Departing […]
Assessing Tone Wood Using the Lucchi Meter
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Francois Xavier Tourte and Dominique Pecatte never used a Lucchi meter. In fact it was not until the late 20th Century that the first Lucchi meter was developed. Today however, the Lucchi meter has become so ubiquitous that the pricing of bow blanks is directly tied into the Lucchi meter reading. So what is this […]