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<b>A very old Brescian viola</b>
A very old Brescian viola
This week's instrument is a very old viola from Brescia that is pictured in the W.E. Hill photo archives. The instrument is double-purfled and ornamented in the style of Maggini, but the Hills thought it might be by an even earlier maker made in the middle of the 16th century, and that the scroll might be earlier still. The viola was owned at one time by Henri Vieuxtemps and was later in the collection of the Duc de Camposelice.

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