German Violin Label Guadagnini

Full size two piece reddish amber brown spruce top, maple ribs, lovely flamed figured one piece maple back, ebony fingerboard, ebony pegs with gold tips, ebony tailpiece with fine tuners, and chin rest. Original maple neck and scroll.

Giuseppe Guadagnini, son of celebrated violin maker Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, trained with and assisted his father in Parma and Turin in the 1760s-70s before finding his way as an independent maker. Like his father, he traveled widely for his work, including to Pavia, Como, and Milan. Of the violin making sons of G.B. Guadagnini, he appears to have been the most prolific.