Sesto Rocchi

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: Sesto Rocchi

Date: 1961

Town: Regio Emilia

Country: Italy

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

Inventory number: KIL-38, identification no. XVc-38

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

Description: A. Stradivari model; two-piece spruce belly with equal graining, two-piece flame maple back; sonorous, soft sound, for solo and ensemble performance

Inscriptions: printed label reading: (= Roberto =) / Sesto Rocchi da S. Polo / (Rocchi Sesto) / Fece l´anno 19(61) / [stylised cross over IHS]

Measurements: body length 353 mm, upper bout 164 mm, waist 110 mm, lower bout 208 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 Renato Scrollavezza, KIL-39)

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

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