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In Focus: A 1925 violin by Giuseppe Del Lungo

2024-01-17T09:33:00

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Michele Mecatti looks at the Italian maker’s early 20th-century instrument

Giuseppe Del Lungo, father of the better-known Alfredo Del Lungo, was born in 1883 in Borgo San Lorenzo, near Florence. He began as a self-taught violin maker but was later advised by Valentino De Zorzi, from whom he also inherited some tools…

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