"Instruments" by Dmitry Badiarov (English) / Concert Hall ATM, ART TOWER MITO

Instruments

Dmitry Badiarov (violinist, "Mito dell'arco" member)

1. Ryo's Violin:

Made by Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi in 1772, is one of the latest works of the maker, who was a representative of a Milanese school, pupil of a famous Testore. It has typical characteristics of Milanese school with wide grained table and brown-orange vanish. Back of the violin lacks the real purfling. It has two ink lines, immitating purfling. Apparently, age made the maker's hand and eyes fail to perform such a difficult task as cutting the purfling into the back.

Although it has been reshaped into a modern violin once, it is now converted back into a closer to the original condition. In its present set-up it is rather a romantic violin. On the turn of the 18-19th centuries Milan, the town where Landolfi worked, became one of the important centres for violin modernisation.

2. My Violin:

'Romantic Violin, created in December 1999 by an old-minded luthier Dmitry Badiarov after an old-minded method of Antonio Bagatella published in Italy in 1782. Modernized in December 1999 according to the Paris's fashion of 1800s by the same luthier, on request of a more modern-minded player (that is me).'

3. Yoshiko's Viola:

Made by Edward Pamphilon in England in 1669. Naturally it has a body of a baroque viola, although, quite small for the late 1600s. As all of the baroque instruments were reshaped in the romantic era, this viola has not escaped modernization either. Its neck is not original. It is inclined backwards and mortised. The fashion of mortising necks began in ca.1800s. Another substantial change affected the plates. Tables of the baroque instruments were usually quite thick. A great deal of documents proves that tables of many instruments were thinned down in orger to change the sound. Thence the thicknesses of the plates are probably not baroque, but rather romantic.

4. Hidemi's cello

'Cello, built by Bart Visser in 19** after the model of Guadanini, 1752. Although the original model doesn't come from the romantic period, this instrument's set-up is romantic. Ginabattista Guadanini during his life witnessed a delcline of baroque, bloom of classicism and the birth of romanticism. In the latter quarter of his life he became one of the first luthiers to use romantic technique in instrument making. According to the Memories of Count Cozio di Salabue he was a renown instrument modernizer and repairer.

All the instruments strung with plane gut strings except for silver wound basses.

Bows

The four bows are romantic although not of Francois Tourt model, which appeared as early as 1770s. The bow types are characteristic of the late 1770s and early 1800s. They are not as modern as Francois Tourt would be, therefore pefectly suitable for late classical, early romantic styles.

Baroque Violin and Viola da braccio research & reconstruction site by Dmitry Badiarov
http://www.violadabraccio.com/

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