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and eclectic maker, and created instruments drawing inspiration from many different authors. Among this great variety of styles, his preferences were for the Amatis' models and
Guadagnini forms. After the closure of the school Gaetano lived in Parma for long periods, from 1942 to 1948 and again from 1957 until his death in 1959.
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The school concluded its experience after nine years, in 1937, but in the meantime had distinguished itself for the quality of its teaching. The proof of this is that luthiers such as Sesto Rocchi, Raffaele
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His son, Pietro, continued in his father’s profession and also became a master violin maker in his own right. Today one speaks within initiated circles with the utmost admiration of the brief, but prestigious dynasty of violin makers
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Gaetano
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soon gained international fame. Bisiach was an outstanding figure in the commerce of antique violins but above all had the merit of raising a generation of great luthiers, among whom for example Sderci, Borghi, Ornati and
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