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In Focus: A 1925 violin by Carlo Carletti

2026-04-24T08:52:00

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Leonardo Cella examines the early 20th-century instrument

Carlo Carletti was born in 1873 in Pieve di Cento, in the province of Bologna. Like most luthiers from Emilia-Romagna, he started as a self-taught maker; however, his encounters with Raffaele Fiorini and Augusto Pollastri in Bologna and Ettore Soffritti in Ferrara were of fundamental importance to his training. For a period of time, he collaborated with the Luigi Mozzani company ‘Ditta Mozzani’, one of the few Italian workshops engaged in serial violin making…

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