Archived Instruments

ARCHIVED Violins

Czech Stainer copy 1930
< £1,500
A good entry-level instrument professionally set up in the workshop here.
Klingenthal, German c.1850
< £1,500
This instrument has a one piece back, and has been thoroughly reworked, the top plate having been rethicknessed and…
Mittenwald c.1860
£1,500£3,000
Labelled as an Andrea Guarneri, in truth closer to a Stradivari model. A one piece back of flamed bird’s-eye…
Jerome Thibouville-Lamy French c.1910
£1,500£3,000
A better quality French trade instrument, probably the Stradivari IV model listed in the JTL catalogue of 1912. A…
Mathias Neuner, Mittenwald, c.1870
£3,000£5,000
The label dates it to 1801, but this violin is more likely to be the work of the grandson…
A.J. Roberts, England, c.1916
£3,000£5,000
A small instrument with a surprisingly full and rounded tone. Labelled as made by The British Guild of Violin…
C.J.Emmett 2011
£3,000£5,000
This instrument is modelled after the Guarneri ‘del Gesu’ ‘Soil’ of 1733. It has a stop length of 193mm…

ARCHIVED VIOLAS

C.J.Emmett 2012
£3,000£5,000
An instrument made to my own design, combining the width and hence tone of a larger instrument with a…
C.J.Emmett 2013
£5,000
An instrument made to my own design, combining the width and hence tone of a larger instrument with a…