Vintage Master Italian violin by Genuzio Carletti, Cento, Italy, 1980. Make an appointment with us to experience this extremely powerful instrument.

Genuzio Carletti (1905-1996) was born in Pieve di Cento, Italy, and later became one of the most influential violin maker of his birth town. He started learned his violin making from his uncle, Carlo Carletti. Later, Carletti opened his own workshop in Pieve di Cento around 1930. He won first place for a viola in Cremona in 1949. In the late 1940s, Carletti also met Joseph Settin, an American Italian-born violin trader. This led to an agreement with the Center of Violin Making of New York to sell Carletti’s instruments in the United States. Carletti’s instruments than became renowed in USA. Settin passed away in 1970, which ends the collaboration between these two masters.

Carletti moved back to Cento in 1956 where he lived and worked for the remainder of his career. After Settin passed away in 1970, Genuzio then focused on making instruments for top-class players and orchestras in Italy and Europe. He worked almost up to his death. His instruments show his wide range of experience and dedication to his craft. The are rich sounding and extremely well crafted.

Honors and Awards
Aside from his first prize awarded him in Cremona in 1949, Genuzio CARLETTI has won prizes in renown competitions held in Bagnacavallo, Ascoli Piceno, and Liège. 

Features

• Size: 4/4
• Varnish : Brownish Orange Varnish with Antik color shades
• Top : Fine Spruce Top
• Back : Aged 2-piece Maple Back
• Modelling : Carlettious
• Length : 356cm
• Year Made : 1980
• Top Soloist Instrument

*To be Sold Violin Only with certificate by Carlson & Neumann, Cremona