In our first installment of Old and Not In the Way, let's take look at the string instruments of the Guarneri family.
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The scroll of the 1697 'Primrose' Andrea Guarneri viola |
The Guarneri family gave rise to Joseph Guarneri del Gesu, generally considered as good, or better, a violin maker as Stradivarius. Where did he come from?