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‘This violoncello is perhaps the most perfect specimen’- From the archive: August 1924

2024-07-25T08:05:00

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William Whitehouse, a professor at London’s Royal College of Music, recalls some stories about his friend and fellow cellist Carlo Alfredo Piatti (1822–1901)

Signor Piatti who lived for years at 15, Northwick Terrace, N.W., was so fond of seeing and studying the noble beauty of his Strad violoncello that even when unwell and not feeling fit enough to play he would ask his devoted landlady, Miss Freeman, to bring the case and open it so that he could see the lovely instrument. This was quite a regular thing if he was only poorly…

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