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Harpsichord
Chitarrone
Equipment set-up of 1968
Oboe with spare body
Double Virginal
Viola
Guitar
Harpsichord
Chitarrone
Equipment set-up of 1968
Oboe with spare body
Double Virginal
Viola
Guitar

Viola

Giovanni Grancino

Displayed in:

Museum of Musical Instruments of Milan

Museum of Musical Instruments of Milan

Piazza Castello, Milan

Closed today: open tomorrow at 10:00

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This viola is a very rare example of a seventeenth-century instrument. In fact, with the exception of the varnish, it has not undergone the transformations and modernizations that bowed instruments often underwent since the end of the 18th century, to adapt them to the new musical needs. The singularity of the viola, built by the well-known Milanese luthier Giovanni Grancino, is accentuated by the unusual profile and the decoration of the fingerboard and tailpiece made of ebony, mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell, under which there is a thin gold sheet that gives a particular brightness to the inlay.
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Title: Viola

Author: Giovanni Grancino

Date: 1662

Technique: Maple, fir, poplar, walnut, ebony, ivory, mother of pearl, tortoiseshell, gold leaf

Displayed in: Museum of Musical Instruments of Milan

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