Violin present in rubbish, it is an 18th century instrument

(ANSA) – TRIESTE, JULY 5 – Discovered among the many garbage, broken and with out strings, it was taken to a music instructor who had it restored, discovering that it’s a valuable instrument, constructed within the 18th century, price about 60 thousand euros. It’s the story of a violin, which was performed once more yesterday night on the live performance in Piazza Unità d’Italia, as a part of the collateral initiatives for the fiftieth Social Week of Italian Catholics. The violin was held on stage by a 13-year-old Austrian woman, Lorea Mimura, winner of a world competitors. “There was a label that mentioned ‘restored in 1935’, I assumed it could possibly be from the nineteenth century,” music instructor Matteo Fanni Canelles, director of the Accademia Ars Nova in Trieste, to whom the instrument was delivered, informed the newspaper Il Piccolo. “I definitely understood immediately that it wasn’t a type of low-value mass-produced violins, however I did not notice that it was a product of the very best lutherie.” And the luthier is satisfied “that the model of the fingerboard is from the late 18th century and that it has been used lots. It has an exquisite sound, like that of a 50 or 60 thousand euro instrument.” (ANSA).