Building & restoring
Claudio Ricca built various instruments between violas, violins and cellos, 6 viole da gamba, a viola d’amore and a jazz bass.
Violino Enrico e Raul Politi – Roma 1936
2020
Viola d’amore
2017
Violino
1984
Viola da gamba soprano
Viola
1983
Viola d’amore
1986
Top in male fir, bands, bottom and neck in german rural maple; pegs (border and balls in gold) and cordiera in italian cherry-wood, head pattern from a Morri’ís drawing of 1920.
Violino
1983
Viola da gamba soprano
1992
Viola da gamba basso
Alfonso della Corte copy
Faithful copy of a violin attribuite to Alfonso della Corte, Naples 1835. Spruce top, sides, bottom and neck in “opium” maple.
Owned by Spyros Gikontis
Classic guitar
1983
Harmonic surface in male fir, rosetta italian style, sides and bottom in light rosewood , kaja neck.
Nicola Carnevali
Restoration
Vinaccia, 1902
Restoration
Mandolino milanese ’800
Restoration
