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Enrico Robella 1934



As you know by my earlier posts it was my goal to buy a violin this summer and I barely made it! I never dreamed I would actually be able to obtain one, especailly not at such a great find as this violin by Enrico Robella made in 1934. The violin was a lucky find in some ads where a student down at BYU was selling it since they had purchased another. They let me take it home for a few days and once I played the violin and heard how utterly beatiful its sound was I knew I had to have it! It makes my student violin sound like it was made out of plywood! And I used to think it wasn't that bad... Anyway soon after I got it I wanted to learn all I could about the maker of my new violin. The previous owner did have it appraised and it's worth $3,000 and I was lucky enough to get it at a lower price along with an amazing case! "Enrico Robella" is actually a trade brand of Ernst Heinrich Roth. He is a German maker who copied his violins after the Cremonese models of the 1700's like the Stradivari after he traveled to Italy and studied them in the early 1900's. Mine says it was copied after a Strad on the label inside and that it was made in Milano. The made in Milano part puzzles me because he had a shop in Germany and the US around 1934... not anywhere near Milano Italy... regardless I love my instrument all the same.

The top is made of fine-grained Italian spruce and the back is a solid piece of highly flamed maple.

Me playing the violin

The front of the violin


The back is made of maple. It's a highly admired quality if the back is made of one piece rather than two.

Best Friends. ;)

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  1. Skybird9/1/10, 5:25 AM

    There's our musician! You don't look happy or anything! This looks like it has gone a few miles, and that makes the violin an experienced entity! Take her to new heights, kiddo! You can do it!

    PS... You will please invite us to your next concert so we can hear you play in an orchestra, yay? We'd love to be there!

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