Grisales Violinmakers, Italy
Andrea Grisales
This 4/4 cello was built by Italian luthier Andrea Grisales, son of Giorgio Grisales of the Cremona region.
This cello is built in the style and after the model of Domenico Montagnana. The cello is finished in an amber warm orange-brown color. The finish is truly masterful.
The back panel is made of a single piece of maple wood. The sideboards are also made of maple. The top is of spruce with a beautiful curve and very proportionate annual rings.
The dimensions of this (4/4) cello:
- Upper width 36 cm
- Center width 25,5 cm
- Lower width 45 cm
- Corpus height 74,5 cm
- the scale is 69 cm (keel to bridge)
- The cello fits into an ordinary cello case.
The current setup consists of:
- Wittner tailpiece with fine tuners
- French cello bridge
- ebony Hill-model tuning pegs with boxwood rings and dots
- ebony fingerboard
- steel end-pin
String setup
The cello is strung up with Thomastik Versum Soloist on A and D and Pirastro Evah Pirazzi Gold strings on the G and the C. The final setup for this instrument can be chosen by the buyer, in the sound optimisation proces where the buyer will be supported by cellist and cello-string-specialist Mirjam Daalmans from the Gallery.
Andrea Grisales is an Italian violin maker & restorer. Born in 1996 in Cremona to a family of artists, he showed a natural passion for drawing and craftsmanship from an early age. He spent his childhood in the workshop of his father and maternal grandfather, surrounded by pencils and chisels. His maternal grandfather was the violin maker Carlo Corsini.
In 2015 Andrea graduated from the “Liceo Artistico Bruno Munari” in Cremona, where he developed his passion for drawing, a subject he wanted to explore further. In 2018, he obtained a degree in product design at the “Istituto di Arte Applicata e Design” in Turin.
After gaining valuable experience in prestigious companies, where Andrea had the opportunity to collaborate with brilliant creative minds and work with the most modern production technologies, he decided to return to Cremona to apply his acquired experience in violin making.
Today he devotes himself to the family workshop, where he works with his father Giorgio and nephew Ricardo to build modern instruments and study music, restoration techniques and the history of violin making. The fantastic combination of family experience and studies in applied arts drives him to approach violin making with a modern perspective that celebrates history and tradition while keeping an eye on the future.
price available upon request