Relevant Italian violin-makers based in Emilia-Romagna

• Franco Albanelli
  Franco Albanelli
  Franco Albanelli was an Italian luthier, a pupil of Gaetano Pollastri.Albanelli was born in Castel San Pietro Terme, Emilia-Romagna, Italy....
  
   (Bologna 1933-2007)
• don Nicola Amati (Bologna 1662-1752)
• Otello Bignami
  Otello Bignami
  -Biography:Otello Bignami - born in Bologna, Italy on August 6, 1914 and died in Bologna on December 1, 1989.The life of Otello Bignami closely resembles the lives of various 19th century violin makers in that he drew much vitality from the farming and craft traditions of his origins...
  
   (Bologna 1914-1989)
• Marino Capicchioni
  Marino Capicchioni
  Marino Capicchioni was an Italian musical instrument maker- Biography :...
  
   (San Marino, 1895 - Rimini, 1977)
• Carlo Carletti (Pieve di Cento 1873-1941)
• Natale Carletti (Pieve di Cento 1904-1979)
• Giovanni Cavani (Spilamberto 1851-1936)
• Giuseppe Fiorini
  Giuseppe Fiorini
  Giuseppe Fiorini was an Italian musical instrument maker.- Biography :Fiorini was born at Bazzano, Emilia-Romagna, the son and pupil of Raffaele :it:Fiorini Raffaele. Having inherited his parents' cultivated propensities in arts and sciences, he built his first instrument at the age of 16...
  
   (Bazzano - Bologna 1861-1934)
• Raffaele Fiorini
  Raffaele Fiorini
  Raffaele Fiorini , was an influential Italian violin maker.Innovator. personality and pioneer of the great rebirth of contemporary Bolognese violinmaking, Fiorini was born at Musiano di Pian di Macina di Pianoro near Bologna.He spent his first youth in Bazzano where he learned the first elements of...
  
   (Musiano di Pian di Macina, Pianoro - Bologna 1828-1898)
• Arturo Fracassi (Cesena 1899-1973)
• Orsolo Gotti (Pieve di Cento 1867-1922)
• Giovanni Battista Guadagnini
  Giovanni Battista Guadagnini
  Giovanni Battista Guadagnini ; was an emiliano luthier, regarded as one of the finest craftsmen of string instruments in history.-Biography:...
  
   (Bilegno - Piacenza 1711-1786)
• Gian Carlo Guicciardi (Spilamberto, Modena 1940-)
• Floriano Guidanti (Bologna ca. 1643-1715)
• Giovanni Guidanti (Bologna 1687-1760)
• Giuseppe Lepri (Santarcangelo
  Santarcangelo di Romagna
  Santarcangelo di Romagna is a town and comune in the province of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, on the Via Emilia. As of 2009, it had a population of some 21,300. It is crossed by two rivers, the Uso and the Marecchia.- Santarcangelo Festival :...
  
   - 1896-1976)
• Mario Maccaferri (Cento 1900-1993)
• Custode Marcucci (Lugo 1865-1951)
• Giovanni Marchi (Bologna 1727-1807)
• Nicolò Marchioni (Don Nicola Amati) (Bologna ca. 1643-1715)
• Pietro Messori (Modena 1870–1952)
• Luigi Mingazzi (Ravenna 1859-1933)
• Armando Monterumici (Vedrana di Budrio - Bologna 1875-1936)
• Paolo Morara (Bologna 1889-1958)
• Luigi Mozzani (Faenza, Bologna, Cento 1869-1943)
• Ansaldo Poggi
  Ansaldo Poggi
  Ansaldo Poggi was born in Villafontana di Medicina , 9 June 1893 and died in Bologna, 4 September 1984.He demonstrated his talent for the making of stringed instruments at a young age...
  
   (Villafontana di Medicina - Bologna 1893-1984)
• Augusto Pollastri
  Augusto Pollastri
  Augusto Pollastri - was a renowned Italian violin maker, older brother to Gaetano Pollastri....
  
   (Bologna 1877-1927)
• Cesare Pollastri (Bologna 1925-1998)
• Gaetano Pollastri
  Gaetano Pollastri
  -Biography:Gaetano Pollastri Gaetano, Augusto's younger brother,was a professional violinist but after the first world war he devoted himself to violin making. He worked with the same company as his brother in via Castiglione, that was devoted to the construction, repair and commerce of string...
  
   (Bologna 1886-1960)
• Roberto Regazzi
  Roberto Regazzi
  Roberto Regazzi is a notable contemporary violin maker and scholar who received his initiation in the craft from Otello Bignami...
  
   (Bologna 1956-)
• Sesto Rocchi (Reggio Emilia 1909-1991)
• Renato Scrollavezza (Castelnuovo Fogliano - Parma 1927-)
• Gaetano Sgarabotto (Vicenza - Parma 1878-1959)
• Pietro Sgarabotto (Milano - Parma 1903–1990)
• Giuseppe Sgarbi (Finale Emilia 1818-1905)
• Ettore Soffritti (Ferrara 1877–1928)
• Luigi Soffritti (Ferrara 1860–1996)
• Maurizio Spignoli (Bagno di Romagna
  Bagno di Romagna
  Bagno di Romagna is a comune in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 90 km southeast of Bologna and about 45 km south of Forlì....
  
   1958 - Bologna 2007)
• Nicola Utili (Castelbolognese 1888-1948)
• Carlo Annibale Tononi
  Carlo Annibale Tononi
  Carlo Annibale Tononi was a luthier who trained and worked with his father in the Tononi family workshop in Bologna Italy until his father, Johannes Tononi, died in 1713....
  
   (Bologna 1675-1730)
• Giovanni Tononi (Bologna ca. 1640-1713)
• Raffaele Vaccari (Lentigione 1908-1994)
• Aldo Capelli (Cervia-Cesena 1923-2008)

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