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...

For advancing cellists, two popular brands that are often compared in our showroom are Jay Haide and Heinrich Gill. In this video Katelyn plays two cellos from the Heinrich Gill workshop, the W2 and the W3, and the Jay Haide Vuillaume cello. To give you the best comparison, Katelyn plays the same brief piece on all three cellos so you can hear the...