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Takumi TAKAKURA

Maker of Bowed String Instruments, based in Hanno city, Saitama prefecture, Japan.

Born in Tokyo, 1972.

After a short career as a company employee he started violin making under the guidance of Maestro Renato Scrollavezza in Parma, then moved to Milan to study with Maestro Luca Primon.

He learned also the varnishing and instruments set up with Maestro Marco Imer Piccinotti in San Polo Denza.

For the research and study on old and baroque instruments he did apprenticeship in the workshop of Mestro Carlo Chiesa in Milan.

Since 2005 he has taught in Violin Making School in Tokyo city and Saitama prefecture.

His instruments have not only the taste of modern Milanese maker but also have many wits from ancient master which he have learned through years study and research.

From Maestro Dmitry Badiarov he learned vilolin design based on historical documents and basic idea of Violoncello da Spalla.

Now he makes in mainly baroque violin, viola, violoncello and violoncello da Spalla on his own design and old master model.

QUALIFICATIONS

・Graduated Civica Scuola di Milano di Liuteria as professional luthier with short essay on baroque violin ‘La montatura del violino barocco. Ipotesi di progetto di un violino di Stradivari’

・Carry out research on below instruments and museums.

-Baroque violin anonymous , Istituto della Pieta Venezia(Italy)

-Baroque violin Giorgio Srafin, Museo Correr di Venezia(Italy)

-Baroque violin Martin Kaiser , Fondazione Querini Stampalia(Venezia, Italy)

-Baroque instruments relics by A. Stradivari (Cremona, Italy)

-Baroque instruments in Chi-Mei Museum(Taiwan)

-Viola pomposa, Musashino Music University(Japan)

-Violoncello piccolo Johann Wagner, St.Anne Museum (Lubek, Germany)

-Violoncello piccolo J.C.Hoffmann, (Leipzig, Germany)

・Over 20 years of extensive experience on instruments making, repair and teaching.

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