We are a family business specialised in the making, restoring and selling of bowed instruments of the violin family ( viola, cello etc) and their accessories.
Hendrik Woldring (Hein) is first and fore
MAKIISHIZUKA
Serge was fascinated by violinmaking at a very young age. So in 1965, after high school, he leaves for the prestigious Mittenwald school of violinmaking. He graduates after 4 years. There
TANJA BRANDON VIOOLBOUW
For over 20 years,Tanja Brandon is specialized in stringed instruments and bows of high quality for professional musicians, teachers, students and pupils of all levels and ages
Bartolomé Straatemeier, born in 1956, was trained by Patricia Naismith at the Department of Musical Instrument Technology of the London College of Furniture, at present a part of the London Guildhall
RESONANCE
Résonance was created in 1998 by Eric Matser.
He started with the rental of violins and cellos. Meanwhile Résonance become the largest landlord in Amsterdam eo
Résonance’s preferred
Jaap Bolink, born in Enschede on 7 February 1946, is the son of artist-violin maker Jan Hendrik Bolink. He made his first violin when he was thirteen. From 1963 until 1967 he followed a violin making
RENEZAAL
From 1978 to 1981 René Zaal(Wageningen, 18 september 1956) followed a violinmaking course at the Newark School of Violinmaking in England. He then worked for 2 years with violinmaker Loerakk
ULRIKE WIEBEL VIOOLBOUW
My studio is located in the Thieleman and Dros complex in the city of Leiden. Here I work as an independent violin maker since 1994. We are mainly engaged in the craft of violi
KEES VAN HEMERT BOWS
Kees van Hemert received initial training at the workshop of Matthijs de Jong and worked in the position of bowmaker for the internationally recognised firm of Bouman’s, before
Michael Yeats was born in Portland, Oregon in 1950. He began music lessons at an early age but switched from player to instrument maker in 1975. He started his building career as a Baroque and Renaiss
Our collection includes a varied selection of old and new German, Czech, French and Hungarian instruments and a variety of hand-crafted new instruments selected Eastern European or Asian workshops. Vi
For more than twenty years I have been making historical bows in my atelier situated in the heart of Amsterdam, my hometown. I began playing the violin at the age of 12, and later went on to study vio
