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Michele Angelo Bergonzi

"By the mid 1740s, the futute of the great Cremonese violin making tradition rested upon the shoulders of the young Michele Angelo, for in the previous decade all the makers in the Stradivari and Guarneri families in Cremona had died..." [ extract - p.43 ]

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Photographs of 6 violins

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Details 5 violins