Alberto Platner

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For more than a quarter century, Alberto Platner held a real, documented working relationship with the Pamphilj household, first appearing in their accounts on 15 March 1675 — paid 1.45 scudi for conditioning two violas — and continuing to maintain Cardinal Benedetto Pamphilj's own guitars until 1701. One bill from that relationship, dated 16 December 1676, is thought to record the earliest known ...Read More Italian use of overspun ("gimped") strings: two violin strings billed together, one silver-wound, one plain. Platner moved his workshop twice within Rome, from the Parione district to Pigna in 1677 and eventually into a house on Strada Camigliana that would carry his own family name for a century afterward. He trained a number of boys in his atelier, among them, from 1693, the young Giovanni Giorgio who would later be known as Taningard. Like several of his fellow craftsmen, Platner was also a practising musician, though which instrument he played went unrecorded. He died on 12 August 1713, and his son, Michele (Domenico Michele) Platner — already documented elsewhere in this database — inherited the house and the business. Read Less

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