 Gabriele Natali, born in 1960, builds its first instrument at the age of eighteen, under the guidance of Maestro Mauro Scartabelli. Later on he attends to the workshop of Maestro Ovidio Giarelli from which he learns the constructing technique with inner shape in four decomposable parts, technique that he uses still now for the construction of its instruments. Inspired by the creative influence of Maestro Guido Maraviglia, while not one of his students, Gabriele Natali builds instruments in full respect of all the "rules" of the classical "violin-making tradition", using both the "canons" of the Tuscan school (De Zorzi) and those of the "Cremonese" tradition (Stradivari) placed side by side to some personal models. Thanks to the encounter with Maestro Paolo Vettori, attentive knower of the "rules" and of the most celebrated masters "liutai" (violin-makers) but also of the less known ones, Gabriele Natali undertakes the recovery of the shapes and the models used by the Tuscan branch of the "Milano school" (Leandro and Carl Bisiach). It is this "Luteria" that he get inspired from, for that "warmth" of the varnishes, for the "softness" of the contours and details, and for the harmonious construction lines, therefore affirming, indeed, the presence of a "Tuscan School" erroneously never considered as such. |
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