I am very excited and pleased to introduce this new instrument, which may be my finest-sounding violin to date. It is patterned after the “del Gesu” Guarneri 1743 “Il Cannone,” and it is remarkable. Play a simple scale and its clarity, depth, and power are definitively revealed. Although it has yet to be played in …
A del Gesu Guarneri as interpreted by Vuillaume was my launching point for this violin. Yes, an idiosyncratic place to begin, but it’s what I had to work with when I made my first two violins some years ago and they came out astonishingly well. The time was ripe to revisit that early success and …
OK, its a newly photographed violin. I completed this one some months ago, but I’ve only lately gotten around to photograph it. I hesitated because it didn’t feel finished until recently. Multiple sound-posts, bridges, tail-pieces, tail-guts (varying materials and lengths), chin-rests, and string brands…I juggled all these components to optimize the inherent character of this …