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Violin by Anqi Ni, Cremona, 2024
Price
€17,000 EUR
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Full description
This is a perfectly fine-crafted violin by a rising star maker in the heart of Cremona.
"This personal model is based on and inspired by the great maestro of modern violinmaking of the 20th Century - Giuseppe Ornati. In my opinion, he represents a peak of the combination of personal artistry and the deeply rooted Cremonese classical influence. It is, thus, aesthetical experimentation of tradition lined up with modern limpidness. The spruce is from the forest of the Dolomiti Mountains in northeast Italy. It is known to be the same area where Stradivari and other grandmasters would go for resonance wood. The climate and altitude make them grow evenly and straight towards the sky, resulting in ideal resonant quality. I prefer spruce that is light and strong, with a particular sheen of light in its texture. The perfectly quarter-sawn two-piece back maple is from Bosnia. I appreciate the strong medullary rays that run across the grain. They are my guidelines when I work with the wood. The flames are intense but not too imposing. They leave some space like the void in a painting. The flames' distribution is also like landmarks telling me how to tune the plate. It might be that the violin is an extension of the memory of the tree from which it is made. And from the moment when it is being played, it carries on memories in the musical legacy. The lifespan of a human being is much shorter than a tree and a violin, so the violin is like the storyline being passed in the tribes from generation to generation, itself being the collective memory. A violin maker is who ventures to tell a story while adding some variant in each version (exactly like in the mythologies!)." Anqi Ni
"This personal model is based on and inspired by the great maestro of modern violinmaking of the 20th Century - Giuseppe Ornati. In my opinion, he represents a peak of the combination of personal artistry and the deeply rooted Cremonese classical influence. It is, thus, aesthetical experimentation of tradition lined up with modern limpidness. The spruce is from the forest of the Dolomiti Mountains in northeast Italy. It is known to be the same area where Stradivari and other grandmasters would go for resonance wood. The climate and altitude make them grow evenly and straight towards the sky, resulting in ideal resonant quality. I prefer spruce that is light and strong, with a particular sheen of light in its texture. The perfectly quarter-sawn two-piece back maple is from Bosnia. I appreciate the strong medullary rays that run across the grain. They are my guidelines when I work with the wood. The flames are intense but not too imposing. They leave some space like the void in a painting. The flames' distribution is also like landmarks telling me how to tune the plate. It might be that the violin is an extension of the memory of the tree from which it is made. And from the moment when it is being played, it carries on memories in the musical legacy. The lifespan of a human being is much shorter than a tree and a violin, so the violin is like the storyline being passed in the tribes from generation to generation, itself being the collective memory. A violin maker is who ventures to tell a story while adding some variant in each version (exactly like in the mythologies!)." Anqi Ni
dimensions
Back Length
357 mm
Upper Bout
169 mm
Center Bout
116 mm
Lower Bout
212 mm
String Length
326 mm
sound characteristics
Dark, sweet and direct.
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Made by
Anqi Ni
Anqi Ni is a violin maker based in Cremona, Italy. In 2019 she established her workshop “Laboratorio Violintecture” near Piazza Roma, at the historical center of Cremona, where she concentrates on the construction of fine string instruments in modern style.
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