Born in 1882 and son of the Turin violin-maker Enrico Marchetti, Edoardo followed in his father's footsteps, but only from an already quite adult age. He also apprenticed with Romano Marengo Rinaldi during the 1920s, leaving his personal style on many instruments made there during that period.
Edoardo Marchetti's taste was genuinely Turin. The scroll pattern is influenced by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini's model, with an oval volute, a blackened chamfer and an abbreviated end of the spiral. In Marchetti the peg-box is rather massive and with a shallow throat. He used several models, usually with rounded and tilted C-bouts, a feature which can be found in the positioning of the F-holes as well, which diverge strongly towards their lower part. The purfling is quite internal and the fluting is deep and brought outside towards the edges.
