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...

In this video, Bows for Strings violinist Olivia demonstrates four fantastic violins for intermediate to advanced players that are all priced between $2000-$4000. We commonly get asked for comparisons of violins in this range, as there are many wonderful options to consider, from a number of different violin makers. These violins were requested by a customer of ours for video comparison to help...