Hidalgo Moya

sku Product SKU:  23269

After training in Mirecourt, Hidalgo Moya established his workshop in Aylestone, England in 1890. His work has always been highly regarded for his fine craftsmanship and tone qualities.

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Maurizio Tadioli

sku Product SKU:  23351

Born in 1967, Maurizio worked with his grandfather Carlo Pizzamaglio then graduated from The Cremona School of Violin Making in 1985. He has gone on to win many awards and medals at international competitions. This is an interesting example of his early work and has a certificate from Chris Reuning.

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Andrus Faruolo

sku Product SKU:  23308

Andrus Faruolo descends from a family of instrument makers in Italy. His work is well known on the East Coast, For many years he was the Luthier in residence at the Meadowmount School of Music in New York, with letters of recognition from faculty members like Josef Gingold.

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Romeo Antoniazzi

sku Product SKU:  23350

Romeo Antoniazzi is considered one of the most important Italian violin makers of the late 19^th. and early 20^th. centuries. Born in Cremona in 1862, Romeo worked first with his father Gaetano, then with Leandro Bisiach and Monzino in Milan. He had an important workshop producing very fine violins, violas and cellos. He also trained a number of great makers like G.Pedrazzini, F.Garimberti and P.Parravincini. This is a truly exceptional and beautiful example of Romeo Antoniazzi’s work with a superb tone, with depth, power and great playability. This violin is accompanied with a Peter Prier certificate.

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Song

sku Product SKU:  23176

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German

sku Product SKU:  23065

This beautifully made German violin bears a facsimile Stradivarius label but is clearly very much in the style of the best work from the Ernst Heinrich Roth workshop in Markneukirchen.

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Gustav August Ficker

sku Product SKU:  18990

The Gustav August Ficker instruments were made for William Lewis & Sons of Chicago, one of the largest and most important violin shops in the U.S.  They opened in the 1890’s and continued for almost a century. The Ficker violins, violas and cellos were always of the highest quality and always in demand.

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Maurizio Tadioli

sku Product SKU:  23224

Maurizio Tadioli started his training as a violin maker as a child with his grandfather Carlo Pizzamiglio. He graduated from the Cremona School of Violin Making with highest honors in 1985. Since then he has become one of the most important and respected makers in Italy. The long list of awards and honors he has won at international competitions is most impressive.

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Mario Frosali

sku Product SKU:  23035

Trained originally as a violinist, Frosali established as a violinmaker in Florence in 1932 having studied with Giuseppe Scarampella. Emigrating to America, he worked first in New York where he worked for Emil Herrmann. While there he worked alongside Simone Sacconi. He moved to Los Angeles in 1939 working at Wurlitzer in their violin department, establishing his own shop in 1954. In 1949 he was the only American maker to win an award at a major competition in the Hague.  He was enormously successful and his instruments were (and still are) in great demand both in the Los Angeles area as well as here in the Bay Area.

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Fine old German

sku Product SKU:  19229

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Carlos Funes

sku Product SKU:  18356

Carlos was born in Honduras and came to the U.S. as a child. He made his first stringed instruments in high school on his own. Excited by his early success he went to Cremona, Italy to study violin making at the renowned International violin making school, graduating in 1983. He stayed in Italy as a violin maker before returning to this country over thirty years ago. Even after all these years, his instruments show the finest qualities of the Italian violin makers who influenced him.

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Ch J.B.Collin Mezin

sku Product SKU:  14755

This fine violin is an excellent example of the Collin-Mezin "Le Victorieux" model made under the direction of Charles Collin-Mezin.

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Marcello Bellei

sku Product SKU:  13553

Over the years we have been proud to have sold a number of violins and cellos by the gifted young maker Marcello Bellei. Born in 1976, he was trained by maker by Renato Scrollavezza at the violin making school in Parma where a number to today's best makers are trained. Since then he has won a number of awards for his fine instruments.

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Fine old French

sku Product SKU:  2291

In the late 19^th. And early twentieth centuries, there were a number of excellent workshops in Mirecourt. This violin probably dates from the early twentieth century.

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M. Willibald Schmidt

sku Product SKU:  21138

Max Willibald Schmidt was born and trained in Markneukirchen but came to America in 1913 during the great migration. He established his shop in San Francisco where he worked for a number of years before moving to Seattle.

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P.A Petertson *SOLD*

sku Product SKU:  21218

P.A.Peterson worked in Chicago from 1875-1907. Although we don’t know a great deal about this maker, it is clear from our violin that he was a well trained and skillful craftsman.

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Samuel Nemessányi

sku Product SKU:  23151

Samuel Nemessányi is generally considered to be the finest of all Hungarian violin makers. He trained with J.B.Schweitzer and T.Zach then worked in Prague before returning to Budapest in 1863. His violins were highly regarded in his own time. He primarily made reproductions of the work of Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesu which were so skillfully done that they were often re-labeled and sold as fine old Italian instruments.  This violin is an excellent example of this master's work with a wonderful sound that has all the best tonal qualities a violinist could possibly want. This fine violin, a Guarneri copy, is featured in the important book on Hungarian makers by Peter Benedek with numerous photographs and a detailed description.

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Labeled Pierre Marcel

sku Product SKU:  22996

The Pierre Marcel instruments are made in Belgium of fine European tonewood. These violins offer superb craftsmanship and fine tonal qualities at an excellent price

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Fine Old Saxony

sku Product SKU:  22215

This fine old violin is beautifully made with attractively shaded varnish.

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Fine Old French *SOLD*

sku Product SKU:  6670

This is an exceptionally nice old French violin with superb tonal qualities.

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Fine Old French

sku Product SKU:  21386

This fine old Mirecourt violin is from the Laberte workshop.

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Style of Justin Derazey

sku Product SKU:  16413

Although we can't say for sure who made this fine violin, the sound is superb, suitable for a professional violinist.

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Albert Knupfer

sku Product SKU:  18833

This exceptional maker worked for a number of important makers including A.Wunderlich, E.Reinhold Schmidt and H.Glass before setting up in his own shop in 1904. This fine violin is illustrated in the important book on Vogtland violin makers by Zoebisch (pp.194-195). It is in superb condition and has a fine tone.

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Heinrich Gill

sku Product SKU:  18704

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