Similar to Carl Anton Herold violin, Germany

Adrian Studer trained at the Swiss Violin Making School in Brienz and moved to New Zealand in the mid-1980s, where he rapidly established himself as one of our finest violin makers. Most of his violins since the mid-1990s have been based on the work of Storioni, but this instrument, made in 2006, fo...

The Pfretzschner family are most famous for making bows, and W A Pfretzschner is no exception. By the early 1920s, however, he had expanded his Markneukirchen workshop to include violin making, producing well-crafted instruments superior to the standard student models made in other, larger workshops...

Small violins that sound well are increasingly popular with young students who have already been studying violin for several years and have made good progress. This example is based on an old Italian model but with strong characteristics of Saxon making from the Klingenthal/Markneukirchen workshops ...

Emanuel Whitmarsh established his London workshop in 1856, making a large number of violins in the following half century before his death in 1908. This vibrant-sounding example is typical of his work, with its broad modelling and its edges carved in the French style. The tone is striking and charac...

Rushworth and Dreaper, founded in 1828, were makers and dealers in violins, employing a large staff of luthiers under the direction of William Henry Bird, as well as importing instruments from good workshops in Europe. This German-made Artist Apollo violin is one of their more prestigious models, an...

Thomas Warren was one of New Zealands most prominent and productive violin makers in the late twentieth century, establishing a reputation for technical excellence that few other New Zealand makers could match or surpass. This lovely example has a rich, clear, resonant tone across all the four strin...

This is an early violin by Malcolm Collins, one of New Zealands most prolific contemporary professional violin makers. Malcolm trained with Ian Sweetman before developing his own, distinctive style, hallmarked by crisply-cut edges in the French Stradivari style, and a subtly coloured oil varnish. Ma...

Western Czechoslovakia, like its Saxon counterparts on the other side of the German border, boasted a major violin making centre in Schnbach. The city, now known as Luby, was home to a number of large musical instrument workshops which, in their heyday, produced around one hundred and fifty thousand...

Of the hundreds of thousands of violins made in the Vogtland area of eastern Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many were labelled with the names of the great Cremonese makers, Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesu and Nicolo Amati. One great German maker joined this triumvirate, ...

We are very excited about our new Telemann range of instruments, and particularly so about our latest addition, the Maestro violin, which deservedly headlines the series. This attractive example, with its lightly antiqued, honey-gold varnish, is modelled on the most famous of Guarneri del Gesus viol...

William Robinson started off as a saddle maker before re-inventing himself as a highly skilled, prolific and distinguished violin maker. This is a very fine example of his later Guarneri model violins, which are considered to be superior to his early work. The oil-based varnish is a lovely, warm red...

Malcolm Collins has established a reputation as one of New Zealands most prolific professional violin makers. This instrument is a good example of his later work, with an exquisitely flamed maple back and a golden orange-red oil varnish. The Guarneri-style modelling gives the lower registers richnes...

While the many hundreds of thousands of Stradivari copy violins made in the workshops of the German Vogtland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were generically similar, the choice of wood and the different construction methods of the time give considerable variation in tone and re...

Ernst Glaesel founded Glaesel and Mossner, one of the better commercial workshops in Markneukirchen, in 1873, making a number of grades and styles of violin family instruments. This late nineteenth century example has a surprisingly lovely sound, resonant but smooth and creamy, with a very appealing...

In our opinion, Telemann violins, made in China with European know-how, and then finished with our own professional set up, are the best quality-for-money instruments we have come across in a long while. Our new Telemann Virtuoso violins build on the success of the Telemann Sonata and Concerto range...

The famous eighteenth century English maker Richard Duke has been widely imitated, with his Stainer style modelling reproduced with varying success by generations of Vogtland workshops. Happily, this German violin, stamped DUKE LONDON below the button, follows a more graceful Nicolo Amati model, whi...

This fine, late nineteenth century French violin was made in the workshop of Emile Mennesson, who recruited an elite core of luthiers to create over 3000 high-quality violins, violas and cellos under the conjoint names of Mennesson and Guarin. Over the years, these instruments won a number of medals...

This fine, silver-mounted violin bow was made in Germany by R Hagerman from well-selected pernambuco wood. The workmanship is skilled and individualistic, with an elegant, narrow head finished with a sweeping upturn. The simple ebony frog is offset with an attractive, broad pearl slide. The octagonal stick gives the tone clarity, with a crisp articulation and spiccato.

Peter Wamsley was one of the more prominent English violin makers of the later part of the seventeenth century through to the early-mid eighteenth century. He was appointed violin maker to the Prince of Wales before retiring in 1741 after a long and illustrious career. This violin, inspired by the w...

Jay Haide violins, viola and cellos are the inspiration of Jay Ifshin of Ifshin Violins, California. In 1992, Jay realised they could make their own in-house, handmade instruments for the middle and upper student market, and do a better job than the traditional commercial makers in Europe and Asia. ...

This charming, unlabelled violin has historically been attributed to Whitmarsh, and it is quite possible that it came from the workshop of either Emanuel Whitmarsh, or his son Edwin who is also know to have imported decent European instruments in the white and finished them with his own varnish. The...

Giulio Degani was trained by his father Eugenio and, separately and together, they dominated the Venetian violin-making scene for three and a half decades, before Giulio emigrated to the USA in 1922. This lovely violin was made only two years before Eugenio died, and shows the elegance and individua...