ROBERTO BACHIAS 1743 "IL CANNONE" GUARNERI VIOLIN

Features

• Spruce top
• Maple back and ribs
• Maple head and pegbox
• Antiqued finish
• Modeled after Guarnerius instruments
• 1743 Il cannone

About Roberto Bachias

Romanian-Hungarian luthier, Andreas Roberto Bachias was born on the 28th of September 1980 in Szaszregen, Romania. He became acquainted with instrument making at a very early age because his mother worked at an instrument factory in town, and started vocational studies after finishing elementary school. After a year, he became his mother’s student and assistant at the factory. He passed his vocational exam as a violin maker in 1998 and worked in another factory in Vivarius for three years before moving to Hungary in 2002. He worked in several shops, building instruments, furniture, and performing restorations before ultimately enrolling in the violin making school at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, from which he graduated in 2007.

Today, he works in Budapest, alongside and with his former professor, the youngest member of the the Konya family, Lajos Konya JR.