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 Weekend vote: Where was your violin born?June 1, 2008 at 4:36 AM Where was your violin made? You only get one vote, so tell us where your main-squeeze fiddle was born. I started with an early 20th c. German factory violin, then a modern American violin by the luthier David Scroggin, and now my main violin is an Italian Gagliano, nearly 200 years old. What a gathering I have, right here in my studio, and my fiddles are better-traveled than I am!From Anthony Barletta
Romania!
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 4:52 AM From Bart Meijer
My violin was made by Karel Pilař, in Bohemia, in 1940. Long ago I bought it from my teacher, and I love it.Posted on June 1, 2008 at 4:52 AM The Pilař workshop still exists. From David Taylor
Romania
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 5:22 AM From Erin Rushforth
Mine was made in Austria about 200 years ago.
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 5:30 AM From Laurie Niles
Hi everyone! I changed the categories a little, based on initial responses, so if you already voted (first 13) you can vote again!
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 5:45 AM From Peter Kent
Surprised at the % built in France !
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 6:42 AM From Ben Clapton
Unknown German maker, copy of Josef Klotz 1795... made circa 1900
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 8:50 AM From Deborah McCann
The violin I currently have is a Jean Paul Lucas. However, the violin I loved the most was Italian-Gaetano Guadaenini. The Lucas I now have is the closest I have had to Guad and I do love it and have started to love playing again.
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 11:57 AM From Rosalind Porter
Johannes the violin wants me to tell Laurie (violins find it hard to type...) that he is sulking in his case, because she didn't put down the Netherlands/Holland where he was born. Posted on June 1, 2008 at 12:23 PM He asks me to say he is a very distinguished old gentleman and at the age of 224 would rather not be lumped into "rest of Europe". But he still loves violinist.com...!
From Tom Holzman
My violin's origin has been the subject of much expert debate over a 30-year period. It has a Bailly label, but seven experts have delivered eight opinions (one changed his 15 years later). So my vote is ????.
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 1:47 PM From Ray Randall
Alfred Vidoudez 1919 Geneva Switzerland. Formerly owned by Szigeti.Posted on June 1, 2008 at 3:35 PM Got a 3:00 A.M. phone call in connecticut from Switzerland from Pierre Vidoudez saying he had a violin for me. We were on a plane 6 hour later. From Andrew Sords
Is mine the only Brussels-born instrument here? :) Made in the same year and city as Ysaye's solo sonatas :)
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 3:51 PM From Marilyn Marks
my violin was made in budapest in 1926
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 8:51 PM From Lauren Canitia
My violin was made in France in 1905, just a little over 100 years ago.
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 9:43 PM From Antonello Lofù
Yes we won!!!
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 9:46 PM From Jonathan Frohnen
My fav is from France, 1780
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 10:51 PM From Hannah Wright
My violin was made in 1894 in Germany by Martin Perzold.
Posted on June 2, 2008 at 12:43 AM From Hannah Wright
that is, Martin Petzold :)
Posted on June 2, 2008 at 12:47 AM From Laurie Niles
Oh dear, Rosalind, Ray and Marilyn! I tried to get the right countries in there, and mostly got it. I'm not too surprised to see our lead contestants, though I'd have thought there'd be a few more from China.
Posted on June 2, 2008 at 4:52 AM From Royce Faina
Built in America with Italian Parts!
Posted on June 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM From Oliver Bedford
This will make me sound like an Italian snob (that's what I voted), but here we go....Posted on June 2, 2008 at 11:03 AM Years ago I had a violin "attributed" (by G Lucci) to Stefano Scarampella. After a few years I dumped it at a sale, despite its visual and tactile and - in many respects - tonal charms, because it was weak on the D-string and had an appalling wolf note on the A-string. I later realised that it was in fact a Gaetano Gadda. Oh dear... About a year ago I acquired a Mario Gadda "built on my personal model derived from that of my father Gaetano" which looks so much like the Gaetano Gadda "Scarampella" that it's almost uncanny. It's just a couple of mm shorter, and marginally narrower in the waist, but otherwise very similar indeed - amd the good news is that it's tonally perfect. So at last I feel mollified (well, nearly) about having virtually given away a Gaetano Gadda which may have just needed a decent set-up. As for Mantua, the home of Scarampella and the Gadda family,it's a lovely old medieval city, surrounded by defensive lakes (in effect a massive moat), with a fine old castle.
From Amy Nemecek
My baby was made in good old Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, in 1956 by a Dutch gentleman named Garrett Brink. It belonged to my first music teacher (she grew up in the same neighborhood as Brink and her father bought it directly from him). Several years ago she passed it on to me, and I wouldn't part with it. I had some work done to it earlier in the year, and it's like a brand-new instrument. I love it!
Posted on June 2, 2008 at 12:57 PM From Mara Gerety
Rome, Italy, 1928. I'm rather delighted at the fact that 1928 was also the year that Bartok wrote both Violin Rhapsodies and the Fourth String Quartet. :)
Posted on June 2, 2008 at 3:58 PM From Murilo Callou
My baby is from Paraíba, Brasil, and its 10 months old.
Posted on June 2, 2008 at 4:56 PM From Kristin Mortenson
My guy is a Riccardo Bergonzi, Cremona, from 2004. As I've stated here before, I love it. My back up is a Collin Mezin from 1884. My daughter's playing on it now! (but she has a faux-Klotz for school...)
Posted on June 3, 2008 at 2:34 AM From Olivia Francis
My violin was born just this year actually, in New Zealand! However it was made by a Bulgarian fellow. He is the concertmaster of the Auckland Philharmonia here. :)
Posted on June 3, 2008 at 2:39 AM From Madeline G
My violin, Franz, was made in Germany in 1857 by Johann Something Gottlieb, I think (the handwriting is terrible). Franz has an amazing, rich sound, and I am very fortunate to have him. My teacher's husband (who owns a violin shop and sold Franz to me) said that he is a great violin and that, had he been Italian, he would be worth $20,000-$30,000 more than the price I got him for. I'm very lucky that Franz is not Italian, because I would not have been able to afford him if he was! :)
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