In Focus: A 1969 viola by Gio Batta Morassi

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Yuri Pochekin examines his own mentor’s viola

Gio Batta Morassi, one of the foremost figures in 20th-century Cremonese violin making, was born in 1934 in Arta Terme, about 30 miles north of Udine in north-east Italy. Morassi graduated from the Cremona International Violin Making School…

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