Two of a kind Landon, Christopher
Strad,
02/2008, Volume:
119, Issue:
1414
Magazine Article
Compares two instruments by Francesco Goffriller, who was born in Venice in 1691 and died in Udine in about 1755. He was one of the many children of luthier Matteo Gofriller and his wife Maddalena ...Maria, daughter of the Venetian violin maker Martin Kaiser. The backs of both the viola and the cello are made of the same fruitwood, and on the viola the ribs and the scroll are made of the same wood. As for the cello, the scroll and the sides are made of beechwood, which is often seen in Milanese and Bolognese instruments of the same period. On both instruments, the ground colour is greyish rather than the deep golden orange used by the Venetians. Also, the varnish is not as rich in colour and is dryer than the varnish used by Francesco's father.
