We stock a range of new and antique violins, violas and cellos, naturally weighted towards instruments made here in the workshop. The list of instruments given is not exhaustive, so if there is a particular instrument or price bracket you are looking for please don’t hesitate to call. A range of student instruments are available on order, and even if we don’t have what you’re looking for in stock we may be able either to source it, or put you in touch with someone in the violin trade that can.
An instrument made to my own design, combining the width and hence tone of a larger instrument with a…
Based on the Stradivari ‘Messiah’ model, this instrument has a soft, sweet tone.
Based on the Stradivari ‘Messiah’ model, and the instrument judged by J. and A. Beare to be the best…
An instrument based on the Guarneri ‘del Gesu’ ‘Cannone’ played by Paganini, retaining the shapes and large dimensions of…
A violin based on the mid-period ‘del Gesu’ instrument known as the ‘Soil,’ its slightly smaller dimensions make it…
A violin based on the Guarneri ‘Il Cannone’ model, with an antiqued finish and boxwood fittings.
A new model of viola based on an instrument by Maggini, LOB 16 ¼” (412mm). Like the original it…
An instrument made to my own design, combining the width and hence tone of a larger instrument with a…
An English instrument made in Handsworth, near Birmingham, with a back length of 409mm (16”).
This instrument is modelled after the Guarneri ‘del Gesu’ ‘Soil’ of 1733. It has a stop length of 193mm…
A small instrument with a surprisingly full and rounded tone. Labelled as made by The British Guild of Violin…
The label dates it to 1801, but this violin is more likely to be the work of the grandson…
Stradivari ‘Cessol’ model, with a vibrant golden-orange varnish.
An unlabelled English-made instrument, of good workmanship and materials, oil varnished with a small amount of natural wear and…
Labelled as an Andrea Guarneri, in truth closer to a Stradivari model. A one piece back of flamed bird’s-eye…
A better quality French trade instrument, probably the Stradivari IV model listed in the JTL catalogue of 1912. A…
Modelled after an Alessandro Gagliano cello of 1704, back length of 749mm (29 ½”), with a warm, full tone.
An attractively flamed two piece back. The original veneered fingerboard has been replaced with one of solid ebony.
Professionally set up with solid ebony fittings and a hand cut bridge fitted to the instrument.
This instrument has a one piece back, and has been thoroughly reworked, the top plate having been rethicknessed and…