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Landolfi's best instruments have similarities to the work of
Guarneri del Gesu, but the Landolfis have unique characteristics reflecting constant refinement over the course of his career. For example, Landolfi developed an approach that increased the arching of the belly of each violin and viola
41:. Instruments created centuries ago by Landolfi and his fellow Italian luthiers have not been improved upon despite modern technology and are still played by the finest violinists and violists in the great concert halls across the world.
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Importantly, Landolfi's most exceptional instruments possess a full tone of great carrying power. For that reason, over the centuries
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with relation to the back. And his careful workmanship included scroll carving of a particularly graceful manner, often smaller and broader than the work of other master luthiers.
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Landolfi may have been the last of the classical
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For his finest instruments, Landolfi chose the woods with exceptional care and used superb varnishes of a particularly striking hue.
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