A great opportunity to purchase a guitar made by one the most famous Lutherie families of all time. And the choice of players like John Williams and Izhar Elias for their early music recordings. Herman Hauser the 1also made copies of Guadagnins

This example was recently set up with gut strings by Ian Watchorne, who also repaired some hairline cracks. He noted how similar it was to an early 19th-century Gaetano Guadagnin he had recently restored, right down to the Ivory frets.

Francesco Guadagnini

Violin maker
(1863 – 1948)

Second only to his great-grandfather G.B. Guadagnini in productivity, Francesco Guadagnini inherited the family workshop in 1881 at the age of 18. He ran the business successfully, with some help from his brother Giuseppe II,