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2. Alessandro Mendini - Wikipedia

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   16 August 1931. Died. 18 February 2019. (2019-02-18) (aged 87) Alessandro Mendini (16 August 1931 – 18 February 2019) was an Italian designer and architect. He played an important part in the development of Italian, Postmodern, and Radical design. [1] He also worked, aside from his artistic career, for Casabella, Modo and Domus magazines.

3. History of the violin - Wikipedia

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   History of the violin. The violin, viola and cello were first built in the early 16th century, in Italy. The earliest evidence for their existence is in paintings by Gaudenzio Ferrari from the 1530s, though Ferrari's instruments had only three strings. The Académie musicale, a treatise written in 1556 by Philibert Jambe de Fer, gives a clear ...

4. Museo del Violino - Wikipedia

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   The Violin Museum (Italian: Museo del Violino), formerly the Stradivarius Museum (Italian: Museo Stradivari), is a musical instrument museum located in Cremona.The museum is best known for its collection of stringed instruments that includes violins, violas, cellos, and double basses crafted by renowned luthiers, including Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù.

5. Pochette (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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   Violin. Viola. Cello. Double bass. The pochette is a small stringed instrument of the bowed variety. It is essentially a very small violin -like wood instrument designed to fit in a pocket, hence its common name, the "pochette" (French for small pocket). Also known as a pocket fiddle it was developed to be used by dance masters in royal courts ...

6. Lipinski Stradivarius - Wikipedia

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   The Lipinski Stradivarius, from a 1923 magazine. The Lipinski Stradivarius is an antique violin constructed in 1715 by the Italian [1] luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, during Stradivari's "golden period" between 1700 and 1725. There are fewer than 650 extant Stradivarius violins in the world today, and the Lipinski is considered to be a ...

7. Sesto Rocchi - Wikipedia

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   Sesto Rocchi was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy. He started his violin making studies at the School of Violin Making at the Parma Conservatory under Gaetano Sgarabotto. [1] After approximately 6 years of study, he moved to Milan to further his learning with Leandro Bisiach. [2] Between 1956 and 1988 Sesto served on every prestigious violin making ...