Museum violin da salo6/7/2023 ![]() Now best known for his violas, he worked in the second half of the 16 th century, 150 years before Stradivari. Gaspar was credited by some, especially in his home town of Salò on Lake Majore, near Brescia, as the inventor of the violin. I’ve enjoyed working on a Gaspar da Salò violin model that seemed natural for this project. Basswood is quite a bit softer and lighter than maple and I wanted to work with a strong arch, and since I expected the tone color to be on the dark side, to work on a large model to take advantage of that characteristic. I offered to work it and see what there was to learn about it. A woodcutter who was interested in how it would work for fiddles had given it to him and David was not getting to working it. David Meyer, a colleague of mine, showed me a beautiful piece of curly basswood that had been cut near his studio north of Mt Mansfield.
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