VINTAGE GUADAGNINI VN 4/4 ADJ

Höfner Vintage Series violin, 4/4 size. Höfner's best makers select each piece of maple and spruce from their oldest stock of tonewood, air-dried for decades. Guadagnini model. Built on a 1757 example by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1711-1786). Influenced by Cremonese makers but leaving his own mark stylistically, Guadagnini lived an interesting and somewhat nomadic life, making remarkable instruments in Piacenza, Milan, Parma, and Turin over a 50 year period. Includes ebony Parisian eye pegs and endbutton, Despiau ''A'' level French bridge, ebony tailpiece with E tuner, Guarneri model ebony chinrest, and Pirastro Evah Pirazzi Gold strings (silver G, loop end E).