A special and historically significant violin of the Italian Brescian school of making by Gaetano Pasta, who had ties with the Rogeri family of violin makers, whose style of making from northern Italy was an important proponent of the 18th century alongside the Cremonese school.
This violin is a perfectly suited versatile concert quality instrument for a petite player or performer looking for a very manageable ⅞ size at 347cm and 325mm string length. It has a very clean, precise timbre, with an even and open quality up the registers on each string that is both robustly brilliant, warm, and colorful. It is accompanied by Reuning certification.
About Gaetano Pasta: 
Gaetano Pasta was the son of Bartolomeo Pasta who was recorded to have worked for Nicolo Amati in Cremona in 1660. The family subsequently moved to Milan, apparently staying in the house of the Testore family, where Gaetano was born in about 1679. By 1694 he was established in Brescia with his brother Domenico, in a shop known as 'Alla Pallada. Giovanni Battista Rogeri, who had also worked with Amati alongside Bartolomeo, had been in Brescia since 1664, and may have been able to offer work to the brothers.
Gaetano's violins certainly bear a strong stylistic resemblance to those of Rogeri, but lack the subtlety of finish. The Pasta family offer an interesting link between the schools of Cremona, Milan and Brescia in this formative period, and provide some very characterful and distinctive work reflecting all these various styles. His work featured exuberant classical forms along the lines of Amati and Rogeri, characterized by impetuous craftsmanship.