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In Focus: A c.1750 violin by Michele Deconet

2024-09-27T09:03:00

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Peter Koerner examines the French maker’s mid-century instrument

Born near Strasbourg around 1712, Michele Deconet worked as a travelling violinist for many years before settling in Venice. He apparently met many important Venetian violin makers during his time, and may have worked with them or at least maintained intensive contact with them. These luthiers influenced the construction of Deconet’s instruments in very specific ways, so that Deconet’s own works have their own signature and rarely deviate from it…

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