Instruments
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Replicas

The original instrument is in a private collection. When adapting it to modern playing practices, the original neck was removed; the components were also lost.

Matteo Goffriller was born in Brixen and first appears in records in Venice in 1685. The stylistic features of his work reveal little of his South German origins. For instance, the curves of his instruments are not very pronounced and are very elongated with a wide chamfer. The instrument from around 1700 illustrates this very clearly, as this tendency became even more pronounced after 1690. From this point on, he also increasingly used one-piece backs, a detail that is taken into account in the reconstruction. The fingerboard and tailpiece are veneered with ebony or rosewood in the reconstruction and, like the pegs, are crafted based on surviving originals by Martinus Kaiser, since Matteo Goffriller took over his workshop in 1690, allowing us to assume a similarity in the aesthetics and technology of their work.