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
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.
The Primavera range
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
FLORIAN LEONHARD FINE VIOLINS LLP
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
Founded in 1892, J & A Beare is widely regarded as the pre-eminent business in the field of fine antique stringed instruments and bows. Supported by Beare’s unrivalled team of specialists, many
OXFORD VIOLINS
Oxford Violins was established in 1983 by Michael Kearns, Mark Yakoushkin and Bruno Guastalla in the City of Oxford, renowned for its musical life.
The way we work reflects our curiosit
Dating from the end of the seventeenth century, our shop is arranged over four floors encompassing a workshop, two rooms designated for customers to view and try out instruments and bows, and an instr
