Pictorial Table of Known Instruments attributed to Settimio Gazzo, or in the Gazzo style
Updated: 8/15/08

           Surviving Instruments

Instrument Type Taraffo Standard style Taraffo Standard style Simple Curve style Simple Curve style Simple Curve style Simple Curve style Simple Curve style Simple Curve style Simple Curve style Simple Curve style Simple Curve style Simple Straight style Carrara style Carrara style Poggi style Simple Carrara style Bianchi style Fancy Theorbo style, flare Theorbo style, flare Theorbo style, flare Theorbo style, flare Theorbo style, flare 6-string, flare Theorbo style 6 string
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Date 1909 no label, believed Gazzo 1919 1911 1916 1911 1917 1915 no label, believed Gazzo Unknown, but Gazzo label 1916 Maker's stamp, not Gazzo 1914 Poggi, no date on label Poggi, 1924 Unknown, no label Giorgio Bianchi, 1932 Unknown 1918 1919 1909 1921? Poggi Ventura 1917 1901 1919
# Sub-Bass Strings 8 8 6 (2 added) 8, modified? 6 7 8 6 6 6 7 (1 added) 8 7 8 8 8 5 8 4 4 4 4 4 0 3 3 0
Current Owner National Music Liceo Niccolò Paganini Gregg Miner Adriano Chierchini Unknown Ginetta Pastorino Gazzo's grand-niece, Mrs Giuseppina Capurro Franco Ghisalberti Pio Montanari Todaro's Music Unknown Museum Renato Ceccherelli Anonymous Giorgio Ferraris Danilo Gosti Beppe Gambetta Tony Bingham   Mario Vecco? Adriano Chierchini Ugo Moltedo Gianni Accornero Antonello Saccu Antonello Saccu Antonello Saccu Bob Andrini Paolo Mereu Ginetta Pastorino
Past
Owner		 Pasquale Taraffo     Pietro Taraffo RInaldo Taraffo? ? > Armondo Carrara             Prospero Taraffo > Carrara         Mario Vecco?   Settimio Gazzo Taraffo >  Armondo Carrara       Luigi Andrini   Pasquale Taraffo
Comments This was his main instrument

See historical photo below

     See historical photo below See historical photo below     wood nut along rim, rather than posts   wood nut along rim, rather than posts Extra sub-bass extension added     Built by Francesco Poggi Built by Francesco Poggi               Built by Francesco Poggi     Earliest dated Gazzo  

           Historical Instruments

Instrument Type Taraffo Standard style Early Taraffo style Early Taraffo style Early Taraffo style Simple Curve style Simple Curve style Simple Curve style Simple Curve style Simple Curve style Reguzzoni style, simple Reguzzoni style, fancier Carrara style Carrara style Theorbo style, flare Theorbo style Very Fancy Ultra-fancy
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Label Date 1900s 1900s     1907-1910                        
# Sub-Bass Strings 8 8 8 8 8 8, modified? 6 7 8 6 7 8 7 4 3 8 8
Past Owner Pasquale
Taraffo		 Pasquale
Taraffo		 Schenone Del Corso Pasquale
Taraffo		 Pietro Taraffo Rinaldo
Taraffo		 Armando
Carrara		 Gaddi Reguzzoni Reguzzoni Armando
Carrara		 Attilio Albano Candi group player Candi group player Attilio Albano Unknown player
Comments Gazzo - possibly more than one instrument, and/or new fretboards Believed Gazzo Note "f" hole in arm, and soundhole rosette pattern; also the label layout visible in soundhole of Del Corso's.  These are almost certainly a builder other than Gazzo. Believed Gazzo Gazzo Gazzo NOTE: 
Look at headstock and bass tuner and post layout, and single foot (instead of 2) - this is the exact same instrument as above in color, except AGAIN for inlays!		 Believed Gazzo Maker unknown Maker unknown Believed Gazzo Maker unknown Maker unknown Maker unknown These are likely copies by better builders in the Genoa area.
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