For fourteen years I was in the violin department at Sotheby’s. My last seven years there were as a departmental director. This meant travelling around the world advising clients about their ins
The Violin Workshop, based in Cambridge UK and run by The Cambridge Violin Makers, offers one week summer courses in violin making and bow making. We have students of all ages and professions coming f
In my experience, those who take up lutherie are generally either players or woodworkers willing to embrace intransigent, even belligerent, materials. I fall into both categories, because I began lear
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Benjamin Hebbert has more than fifteen years of experience as an increasingly respected authority on stringed instruments. Since training as an instrument maker in the 1990s, he has worked for a varie
The Sound Post Ltd was founded in London in 1993 by the late Stephen Jocelyn, a professional cellist, who wanted to improve the quality of student instruments available in the UK.
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From a young age music and art have been a lasting passion for me. From the age of 10 I attended a Waldorf Steiner School which encouraged and developed my artistic senses. This led to a BA Hons degre
I studied violinmaking at the Geigenbaufachschule Mittenwald. From there I went on to work in various Violinshops, in Chicago at Michael Becker’s and Kenneth Stein’s. After a year in Tobias Festl�
I have been making stringed instruments since 1993, graduating from the Newark School of Violin Making in 1999.
I enjoy the process from the draftsmanship side of planning an outline and making a moul
CON RENDELL- LUTHIER
Versatile and Innovative Instrument Maker with over 40 Years Experience Specializing in One Off Original Design Acoustic Instruments
Originally training at Henry Selmer’s
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Florian Leonhard has dedicated his life to studying, restoring and making violins. He has established a career out of his love of fine instruments and has continued t
CARDIFF VIOLINS
Welcome to Cardiff Violins, Wales’s largest violin shop! We offer thousands of stringed instruments, bows, cases and accessories, catering to every level of player, from beginner to