Born in Naples in 1864, Giovanni Pistucci, after having apparently trained in the workshop of Vincenzo Postiglione, became one of the main luthiers active in his city during the twentieth century. He made a large quantity of copies and fakes inspired to the Neapolitan makers active before him, often of great quality and now easily recognizable thanks to the personality of his work.
The Pistucci model has strong echoes of those used by the Gagliano family, with the characteristic bulge in the lower part of the plates near the corners. The corners themselves are long and drawn on an elegant pattern, although carved quite spontaneously; the purfling meets with a long junction and also incorporates the typical Neapolitan structure with the black in paper. The scroll is small and placed on top of a long and straight peg-box. The soundholes have a characteristic and often very asymmetrical positioning.
