Wooden violin with arched body, black fingerboard, and brown bridge and tailpiece.

Wooden violin with warm brown f-holes and strings, shown from the back view.

Wooden violin front with warm brown finish, f-holes, and black fingerboard.

Wooden violin back with warm brown striped grain and arched body shape.

Violin scroll and neck with carved spiral detail and three tuning pegs, warm brown wood.

Violin scroll and neck detail with tuning pegs; glossy warm brown varnish finish.

Violin headstock with spiral scroll and four tuning pegs, warm brown wood.

Violin tail end and back of headstock with f-holes and black fingerboard strings visible.

Violin headstock end view with three tuning pegs on the right, warm brown wood.

Violin body close-up showing f-hole and warm brown wood grain near the strings.

Marco Cargnelutti

Marco Cargnelutti, Udine Italy 2026, 'Ophiuchus' Violin

Name: Marco Cargnelutti, Udine Italy 2026, 'Ophiuchus' Violin
Brand: Marco Cargnelutti
SKU: FS573
Price: 16900.00 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Fine Italian Violin

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SKU: FS573

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Inspired by the legendary 'Viotti' 1709 by Antonio Stradivari, this violin carries the brilliance and projection of the Cremonese golden age. Named after the constellation Ophiuchus (off-ee-YOO-kuhs), the Serpent Bearer, it symbolizes harmony between opposing forces — precision and passion, earth and sky.

Violin Specifications

Top: Split spruce from Val di Fiemme, medium and regular grain
Back & Sides: Balkan Maple one piece, deep and narrow flame
Neck & Scroll: Balkan Maple
Fingerboard: Ebony
Fittings: Cocobolo

Sale Includes

Instrument
Quality Oblong Case
Certificate of Authenticity

About The Maker

Marco Cargnelutti

Born in 1983 in Gemona Del Friuli (UD), a small town about 100km north-east of Venice, he started getting interested in violin making after visiting a workshop in his region. He then decides to attend the A. Stradivari International Violin Making School in Cremona and, under the guidance of different Masters (Angelo Sperzaga, Wanna Zambelli, but also Massimo Negroni, Luca Bellini and Daniele Scolari), he learns the Cremonese traditional construction of bowed string instruments.

He graduated in 2012, and soon after he took apprenticeships in two workshops in Cremona, with Giorgio Scolari and Luca Bellini. At the same time he had the possibility to learn also from other Cremonese violin makers, such as Davide Sora, continuing then acoustic and aesthetic research in his hometown.

For his instruments he uses only seasoned wood, chosen with accuracy, paying particular attention to acoustic properties.

At the beginning of 2015 he opens his workshop in Gemona del Friuli, where he builds violins, violas and cellos mainly based on Stradivarius models, and paying particular attention to great Masters of the last century, such as G. Ornati and F. Garimberti.

From 2015 he is member of the Associazione Liutaria Italiana - Liutai Professionisti (A.L.I.)