Mario Gadda

Violin maker
(1931 – 2008)

More instruments left the Gadda workshop once Mario, trained by his father Gaetano from boyhood, began contributing to it as a young man — though the general view is that quality slipped a little even as quantity rose. Some pieces from his later years carry a "made in collaboration with" credit to his father that likely overstates Gaetano's real involvement; more of Mario's own hand, or that of an ...Read More assistant, is usually the truer story. From the late 1980s he also turned to copying other well-known north-Italian makers of the previous couple of generations, right down to labels and brands convincing enough to pass for the real thing. Read Less

Price History

- The auction record for this maker is $35,780 in Feb 2006, for a cello.
- 146 auction price results.

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