Testore, Carlo Antonio
Testore Paolo Antonio, *14 June 1700 Milan, †30 March 1767 Milan, Italian luthier, son of Carlo Giuseppe. Initially, he worked in his father’s workshop, later he set up his own workshop. He built instruments closely resembling his father’s, although he paid more attention to the selection of wood and varnish, with a yellow and sometimes orange-red tint. He also built lutes, guitars and pochettes. The uneven quality of the instruments is sometimes explained by his alcohol addiction.
Literature: E. Mariani Nel mondo della liuteria italiana, Savona 1972; La liuteria milanese nel XVIII secolo. Mostra organizzata nel Museo annesso alla Biblioteca del Conservatorio…, exhibition catalogue, Milan 1982; U. Azzolina Liuteria italiana del’Ottocento e del Novecento, Cremona 1989; C. Chiesa Violin Making and Makers on the Contrada Larga in Milan and P. Kass Stringed Instruments of the Milanese Liutai of the Contrada Larga, “Journal of the Violin Society of America” XIV, 1996; L. Libin Carlo Antonio Testore Violin (1737), “The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin” LVI/2, 1998; S. Reiley Carlo Giuseppe Testore Double Bass, c. 1750, “Bass World. The Magazine of the International Society of Bassists” XXVIII, 2004.