We’ve just added a number of wonderful fine Italian violins to our collection, including one from the modern master violin maker, Andrea Schudtz. Schudtz attended the International School of Violin Making in Cremona and moved to Italy. He studied with Mo. Conia, Mo. Negroni, Mo. G. Scolari and in 1995 graduated from the school. While attending the first year of the school he worked...

As we quickly approach the end of the year we would like to wish you and your family a happy, safe and musical festive season. The Bows for Strings showroom will be open right up until 4pm Friday 23 December for all your musical needs. We will then take a short break before reopening our showroom on Wednesday 11 January, 2022.  Our showroom...

We’ve just added a number of wonderful fine Italian violins to our collection, including a beautiful example from master luthier, Marco Piccinotti, handmade in 2022 in his workshop in Cremona. Marco Piccinotti has more than four decades of experience in the craft and has done extensive research on bowed string instrument crafting, acoustics and restoration, and has studied the most prominent Italian violin...