Violino guarneri paganini biography

by Carlo Chiesa (violin maker)

When I look at a violin, as a violin maker, I take it in my hand and consider various aspects of it. I look at the workmanship, the technical quality of the execution, I think about how it will sound.

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I also think about the skills as a craftsman and as an artist of the person who made it, of the person who worked on it. In the end, precisely because I am a luthier, I am very interested in this aspect, I am interested in the person who made that instrument, and I happen to go back in my mind, or sometimes in my imagination, to the person behind the object that I find myself holding in my hand.

And this is true for modern instruments, made by luthiers who are close to us in time and culture, but even more so for ancient ones. And somehow I find an affinity that binds me to people who made other instruments in the past.

Perhaps this is why I am passionate about the history of violin making: because I like to think of these people, these ordinary men,