Ian Crawford McWilliams is a Canadian living 80 km west of Berlin in the historical town of Brandenburg an der Havel. He finished his schooling in Vancouver and left for England in 2002 on a path of l
On 1 January 2010, Klaus Ludwig Clement will open a new master workshop in the music city of Leipzig. Under the umbrella of the Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag, founded in 1807, he now works together
The studio for violin and bow making is the culmination of two complementary personalities, careers and work ethics founded in 2007.
Nicholas Gooch and Irina Feichtl are not only colleagues, but have
Hans Weisshaar provides generations of musicians, teaching institutions, insurance companies, collectors, and investors with reliable valuations of prized instruments based on the firm’s expertise a
In 1952 the company was founded in Bubenreuth by Heinrich Gill to distribute classical and traditional musical instruments. The company grew bigger and soon became quite successful. The first internat
Bernd Dimbath — violin maker
My passion as a violin maker is not only the pursuit of technical and stylistic perfection, it also applies to the complex topic of acoustics.
In every culture music
GENTGES & SCHEIT GEIGENBAUER
Since 1994 there is the Geigenbau-Werkstatt Gentges & Scheit in Berlin.
For many years this workshop lay in the quiet but dark backyard of Paul Robeson Street 47;
DOMINIK HUFNAGL
The classic activity of the violin maker is the focus of our workshop: the construction of new violins, violas, cellos and double basses – the merging of traditional methods with
FELIX KRAFFT
1989 Felix Krafft began his apprenticeship in violinmaking in Gubbio, in the province of Umbria, Italy. He finished three years later with a diploma „Maestro Liutaio“. Following that
WOLFGANG SCHNABL
From September 1984 to February 1988 he studied at the ‘Staatliche Fachschule für Geigenbau’ in Mittenwald. In his semester were also Jan Spidlen and Gertrud Reuter.
In t
HAGEN WEISE
Welcome to Hagen Weise Violins in Möhrendorf near Bubenreuth, the center of contemporary violin making. Here, in the heart of the Nuernberg metropolitan region and very close to the unive
