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    Amati > Makers Archive > G > Bendetto Gualzatta

    Bendetto Gualzatta

    worked 1679–1725

    GUALZATTA, Benedetto b. Switzerland, Worked circa. 1679-1725 Rome Italy. Several plucked instruments extant including a mandolin in the Musical Instrument Museum in Rome dated 1679, a Portuguese guitar in the Metropolitan Museum, New York from 1716, and a pandorina in the Schweiz Landesmuseum… — John Dilworth
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    John Dilworth+

    GUALZATTA, Benedetto b. Switzerland, Worked circa. 1679-1725 Rome Italy. Several plucked instruments extant including a mandolin in the Musical Instrument Museum in Rome dated 1679, a Portuguese guitar in the Metropolitan Museum, New York from 1716, and a pandorina in the Schweiz Landesmuseum, Zurich from 1725. No bowed instruments recorded. Benedito Qualzatta / Roma 1716 Benedetto Qualzatta / Roma 1725 [Lebet]

    Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+

    Ein Lautenmacher, der nicht ungeschickt war. Ein aus einem reichverzierten
    Kürbis gemachtes Lauteninstrument (»Cavaco«) von ihm besitzt die Sammlung
    Crosby Brown in New-York (No. 144).

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