Founded in 1999 and relocated to Chalabre in 2004, we are a highly dedicated company. In addition to overseeing the quality of our instruments we have been working constantly to introduce many new ite
Dedicate yourself only to music in optimal playing comfort and sublimated sound. Every detail counts, from the curve of the bridge to the roundness of the fingerboard, from the place of the soul to t
The craft of luthier is complex. It requires solid knowledge in music, sculpture, painting, acoustics, history. The luthier uses all his senses: sight, touch, hearing, smell. All these faculties to
Pierre Nehr was born in 1978 in Aix-en-Provence, South of France.
In 1994, he spent days watching his brother Jean-Pascal Nehr, “Meilleur Ouvrier de France”, working. The smell of wood, th
You will notice when you play a Kloo violin or viola, that it has a very balanced sound: full but also clear, warm but also crisp. The sensitivity and dynamics of the instrument makes it possible to
Here, it’s a workshop like no other… • Here, listening to the Musician takes precedence. Listening to his wishes, his desires and the voice he carries within him. • Here, it is a question
Woodwork and music are two passions that have driven me since childhood. Aged 18, I realised that a trade could mix both of them the day I walked through the door of a violinmaker’s workshop. I di
Une telle classification entraînerait pour nous, d’une part, d’insurmontables contraintes – voire dans certains cas l’impossibilité de voyager -, mettant ainsi en péril l
Emmanuel Carlier began his bow-making apprenticeship in 2005 with Gilles Duhaut in Tours. Then he joined the Maison Bernard in Brussels and became assistant to Pierre Guillaume with whom he developed
” By pushing the door of 50 rue de Rome, we find a discrete or the smell of varnish workshop mingles with scents of precious woods, where the weather changes size. It is a place steeped in histo
Violin making in the 21st century has reached a crucial point. Never in history has there been such an abundance of precise and valuable data so easily accessible to makers. By the medium of Internet,
With a very long experience, the Maison Vatelot-Rampal is able to permanently offer you a very wide choice of quartet instruments ranging from the study instrument to the works of the greatest Italian
