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Maurizio Tadioli Cremona 2010 
  
Maurizio Tadioli is one of today's most well-known and successful luthiers.  He graduated from the Cremona School of Lutherie in 1985 and also studied piano, organ, and vocal performance.  He won awards and medals at the following competitions: 1990 and 1992 Young Violin Makers Competition of Bagnacavallo, 1995 Cremona Quartets Competition, 1995 Baveno Violin Making Competition, 2004 Violin Society of America. 

Tadioli builds instruments after a variety of classic makers, including the often copied Cremonese makers as well as more obscure makers from Emilia, Turin, and Milan. 

This instrument is patterned after the famous 1650 Andrea Amati violin, which is in the collection of the National Music Museum at the University of South Dakota. That outline is rounded with long, hooked corners and f-holes featuring extremely small wings.  The back is decorated with gilt fleurs-de-lis and trefoils and the ribs with a Latin phrase that roughly translates to "By this bulwark alone, religion stands and will stand."

The varnish is a cool amber-brown with orange highlights and deliquate antiquing.


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