Renato Scrollavezza

Instrument: violin

Classification: 3 Chordophones / 32 Composite chordophones / 321 Lutes / 321.3 Handle lutes / 321.32 Necked lutes / 321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars / 321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars with a bow

Violin maker: Renato Scrollavezza

Date: 1960

Town: Parma

Country: Italy

Owner: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s Collection of Violins

Inventory number: KIL-39, identification no. MKiS XVc-39

Provenance: made for the 1962 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań; obtained on 30 May 1962

Description: A. Stradivari’s model; two-piece spruce belly with even graining, two-piece back from flame maple; full, noble, soft sound, for solo and ensemble/orchestral performance; maintained by K. Bendowski (1962), J. Karoń (1963)

Inscriptions: printed calligraphic label in a frame, reading: («CARAVAGGIO») / Renato Scrollavezza / Parma – Fecit anno 19(60) / N. (54 Renato Scrollavezza); burned monogram RS on the button

Measurements: body length 355 mm, upper bout 168 mm, middle bout 110 mm, lower bout 208 mm, total length 597 mm

Materials: spruce, sycamore

Prizes: Third Prize (second prize was not awarded) at the 1962 International H. Wieniawski Violin Making Competition in Poznań (equal with Přemysl Špidlen, KIL-37 and Sesto Rocchi, KIL-38)

Catalog card: based on the Union of Polish Artist Violin Makers’ documentation

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