Riccardo Bergonzi "Tartini" violin, 2006, G. Guarneri "del Gesu" model, Cremona, ITALY, with maker's certificateIm Riccardo Bergonzi, born in 1961 in Cremona where I live and work. At the age of nine I start playing the violin and a few years later together with my brother we try to build a violin with woods and tools found at home The idea of building an object that produces sounds involved me so much that I decided to enroll in the Lutherie School. A very beautiful period begins where I meet many people from all over the world, older than me and with many