We have a selection of instruments handmade in our workshop available to try in our beautiful playing room.
Every instrument we make is an original and can be taken on trial for one week to make sure
We are Fully Qualified Violin, Viola & Cello Makers & Restorers in the heart of Norfolk.
A wide range of hand-crafted new and antique modern & baroque professional instruments as well as g
VIOLIN AND BOW MAKERS, DEALERS AND RESTORERS WITH OVER FIFTY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE.
Valuations for insurance: no charge, where the player is insuring through a good specialist policy with
Traditionally hand crafted violins, violas and cellos by Peter Dodge.
An extensive range of beautifully hand crafted instruments made by traditional methods.
All have the sound qualities and p
Bowspeed is run by Melanie Caswell who resumes the bow sales and repair services of her father Hamilton Caswell at the family’s well-known shop premises in Bristol’s historic Christmas Steps vi
Lorraine bitaud was born in France in 1986.
Both a musician and from a family of wood workers, I was drawn to violin making from an early age. On deciding to become a violin maker, I left France and c
If there is a particular model of instrument you are interested in I am currently offering violin models based on the ‘Sauret’ and the ‘Ole Bull’ by Guarneri del Gesù and the ‘Titian’ and
Being a professional musician and playing alongside other players enables me to play my bows myself to feel and hear how they work, but also to see them under other fingers, and receive feedback from
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
While studying musicology and playing the violin I became interested in the making of violins.
I made my first violin with my local violin maker, Göran Tidström, in 2004. After completing musicology
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
My interest in violins and bows dates back to my teenage years when I studied the classic French bows and violin making with Arthur Bentley on the Wirral. I sold my first bow (I renovated it myself) a
