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    Amati > Makers Archive > C > Tommaso Circapa

    Tommaso Circapa

    Naples, worked 1730–1736

    Primarily a mandolin maker. Produced a few violins and violas in Neapolitan style with glassy orange-yellow varnish. Viola label 1733 cited by Vannes: Tomaso fecit Neap – 1733 Tomaso Circapa / fecit Neap 1738.. [Henley] — John Dilworth
    Worked Naples
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    John Dilworth+

    CIRCAPA, Tomaso Worked circa. 1730-1736 Naples Italy. Primarily a mandolin maker. Produced a few violins and violas in Neapolitan style with glassy orange-yellow varnish. Viola label 1733 cited by Vannes: Tomaso fecit Neap – 1733 Tomaso Circapa / fecit Neap 1738.. [Henley]

    Cecie Stainer+

    A maker in Naples about 1730-35. A mandoline, fairly well made, is known.

    Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+

    Ungleich in seiner Arbeit, die an Aless. Gagliano erinnert, — am besten ist
    noch sein orangegelber Lack; häufiger als Geigen kommen Mandolinen von
    ihm vor.

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