Orfeo Carletti violin, Pieve di Cento 1932

Orfeo Carletti (b.1906, d.1940) was an Italian violin maker. He is the son of Carlo Carletti, who trained him along with his older brother, Natale, at a young age. He started working professionally in the 1920s and was a violinist himself. In 1928, under the instructions of Carlo, the two brothers opened a workshop in Bologna, near the old Fiorini workshop, where their father used to work in his y