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A 16 inches viola - my latest, 'Fiammetta', continuing the Courtesans series...
May 23, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Toby Appel asked me to develop a 16 inches viola. I was afraid of making it because I had never made a 16 inches viola with the sound I like, so I was not willing to risk...
What I did was keeping the same width of my larger violas, the C bouts are the same, I just reduced the upper and lower bouts in length to get a 16 inches viola. I'm not sure if it worked well visually but in terms of sound I'm really satisfied with this one.
"Fiammetta" ("Little Flame") was a famous Roman Courtesan. Thanks again to Andrès Lepage for the photos and for his precious help in the set up and sound evaluation!
Posted on May 23, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Luis...another beauty!
Posted on May 25, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Thanks! Just to compare this new model with my 16 1/2 viola model:
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