string-maker

Updated: June 4, 2025

This was met by Angelo Angelucci, known as the string-maker of Naples, a man who loved music and passed much time with violinists. Through his painstaking efforts such perfection was reached that Tartini, who was born the same year as he, 1692, could play his most difficult compositions two hundred times on the Angelucci strings, whereas he was continually interrupted by the snapping of others.

Aubertine Woodward Moore - For Every Music Lover: A Series of Practical Essays on Music