Merchants index (A-Z)
If you would like to become a third-party merchant on The Strad Shop, please contact Gavin Saunders
Lutherie
My Viola and I by Lionel Tertis
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The Fulton Collection: A Guided Tour by David Fulton
£120.00
Sold by: The Fulton Collection
The Bowmakers of the Peccatte Family, by Paul Childs
£199.00
Sold by: Magic Bow Publications
W.E. Hill & Sons Violin Makers 1880-1936, by John Basford and Tim Toft
£95.00 – £275.00
Sold by: Tim Toft Fine Violins
W.E. Hill and Sons was Britain’s most important violin dealership in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and, during this period, became renowned throughout the world for its expertise in instrument identification and repair. This new book gives a clear photographic and documentary record of instrument making at W.E Hill and Sons, from its inception in the early 1880s to 1936, when the first phase of production ended and the last instrument from that first phase of production was recorded in the original sales ledger.
Read the review, The Strad, May 2020
Italian and French Violin Makers, Volume I-IV
£1,275.00 – £2,245.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
The Essential Handbook for Violinists’ by Rebecca Houghton
£20.00
Sold by: Viva Violins
The Golden Age of Violin Making in Spain
£485.00
Sold by: Tritó Edicions
Questionario Renzo Bacchetta del 1936
£125.00
Sold by: Luca Bastiani
59 Italian Luthiers Tell Their Story Through the Answers to the 1936 Renzo Bacchetta Survey, where they started to learn their craft and how they learned it.
Including:
Historical introduction
Complete transcriptions of the surveys
Complete translations of the surveys in English
43 labels conserved in the Fondo Renzo Bacchetta
59 pages of photographic details of the original
documents showing the handwriting
and signature of the maker
Hard cover 238 pages
Published in 2021, presented online with the patronage of the state library of Cremona.
Price excluding VAT where present and import taxes.
Read the review in The Strad, January 2020
Antonius Stradivarius Volumes I-VIII (Edited by Jost Thöne)
£3,950.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
This eight volume Library Edition is limited to 2.000 copies. Complete with slipcase and DVD.
“Taken together, these eight volumes are a massive achievement, a substantial reset of the standards and quality of documentation, and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the work of the greatest violin maker who ever lived. This is above all a brave project, given the value and importance of these instruments and their often sensitive histories and attributions.”
John Dilworth, The Strad March 2017
Valentin Berlinsky – A Quartet for Life by Maria Matalaev
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The compiled memoirs of Valentin Berlinsky, cellist with the Borodin Quartet for more than six decades.
Foreword by Steven Isserlis
Read the review, The Strad, June 2019
Listening through the lens by Christopher Nupen (with sampler DVD)
£30.00
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The official autobiography from BAFTA award-winning film maker, Christopher Nupen, director of The Trout - one of the most watched classical music films.
Foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy
Read the review, The Strad, January 2020
FÜSSEN LUTE AND VIOLIN MAKING by Josef Focht, Klaus Martius, Thomas Riedmiller
£60.00
Sold by: Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag
A captivating book with excellent reviews set in the Early Modern Era, when lute making in Füssen played a decisive role in influencing the production of stringed instruments in larger parts of Europe. This was possible because town of Füssen settled on one of the most important trading routes across the Alps. The town had access to valuable and unusual wood types on the northern edge of the Alps for which instrument makers gravitated to capture the heart of their sounds.
Read the review, The Strad, July 2019
Violin and Bow Makers, Volume 1
£40.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
Contemporary Violin Makers
£325.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
Antonius Stradivarius Volumes I-VIII (Edited by Jost Thöne) – De Luxe Edition
£17,457.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
This beautiful De Luxe Edition is an investment of a lifetime. Limited to 100 copies, it is leather-bound with gilt edges; the volumes are individually numbered and registered.
“Taken together, these eight volumes are a massive achievement, a substantial reset of the standards and quality of documentation, and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the work of the greatest violin maker who ever lived. This is above all a brave project, given the value and importance of these instruments and their often sensitive histories and attributions.”
John Dilworth, The Strad March 2017
Jean Pierre Marie Persoit: His Life and Work, by Paul Childs
£105.00
Sold by: Magic Bow Publications
The English Double Bass
£465.00
Sold by: Arpeggio Publishing
A unique leather-bound, limited-edition book exploring the fine double basses made in England - £465 plus P&P
The ultimate collector’s investment for anyone with an interest in fine double basses, The English Double Bass is the authoritative work on double basses made in England. Featuring 766 stunning colour photographs of 100 double basses by 40 of England’s great double bass makers, this 524-page book is a collector’s item. The authors have gathered a rare collection of double basses never seen before and presented them in a beautiful leather-bound case.
ISBN: 978-1-916-4053-0-1
Read the review in The Strad, May 2019
Violin & Viola by Yehudi Menuhin and William Primrose
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
An Introduction to the Old Italian Violins (simplified mandarin)
£170.00
Sold by: BEARES PUBLISHING
The book offers an overview of 300 years of violin history. Exploring the historical circumstances in Northern Italy, namely the city of Cremona, where the violin originated, it takes the reader from Andrea Amati's workshop to those of the most famous Cremonese violin makers such as Antonio Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesù and Carlo Bergonzi. From there violin making spread across other Italian and European cities.
Illustrated with more than 600 pictures of instruments, the book is a unique guide to the complex world of violin family instruments; it provides valuable advice on how to choose the best violin, and how to take care of it.
Monograph of the Antonio Stradivari Cello c.1690 ‘Barjansky’
£790.00 – £1,490.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
Probably the most extensive and detailed study of a stringed instrument that has ever been published
Read the review, The Strad July 2021
Tourte Le Jeune (The Tourte Exhibition of London, November 2008)
£99.00
Sold by: Magic Bow Publications
Jean Baptiste Vuillaume
£230.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
Teaching
The Violin in 5ths – Developing Intonation and Sound
£29.99
Sold by: BEARES PUBLISHING
Heifetz, Oistrakh, Stern, Menuhin, Milstein, Szeryng, Ricci, Rabin...Their innate talent and outstanding skills made violin mastery seem natural and easy. As a young man, British violinist, concertmaster and Royal Academy of Music professor Rodney Friend had the privilege to collaborate with many of the virtuosos. During these encounters he observed the simplicity of their practice patterns and a tendency towards effortless posture and natural hand freedom. These observations became the cornerstones of a teaching method that he has developed and perfected over the past decades.
Read the review, The Strad, July 2019
The Essential Handbook for Violinists’ by Rebecca Houghton
£20.00
Sold by: Viva Violins
Playing
The Violin in 5ths – Developing Intonation and Sound
£29.99
Sold by: BEARES PUBLISHING
Heifetz, Oistrakh, Stern, Menuhin, Milstein, Szeryng, Ricci, Rabin...Their innate talent and outstanding skills made violin mastery seem natural and easy. As a young man, British violinist, concertmaster and Royal Academy of Music professor Rodney Friend had the privilege to collaborate with many of the virtuosos. During these encounters he observed the simplicity of their practice patterns and a tendency towards effortless posture and natural hand freedom. These observations became the cornerstones of a teaching method that he has developed and perfected over the past decades.
Read the review, The Strad, July 2019
The Essential Handbook for Violinists’ by Rebecca Houghton
£20.00
Sold by: Viva Violins
A Life In Music, by György Pauk
£15.00
Sold by: GPPublications
Over the course of more than 50 years, György Pauk became an internationally acclaimed concert violinist, appearing worldwide with the greatest orchestras and conductors, and making countless broadcasts and recordings.
Read the review, The Strad September 2021
Violin
Valentin Berlinsky – A Quartet for Life by Maria Matalaev
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The compiled memoirs of Valentin Berlinsky, cellist with the Borodin Quartet for more than six decades.
Foreword by Steven Isserlis
Read the review, The Strad, June 2019
A Life In Music, by György Pauk
£15.00
Sold by: GPPublications
Over the course of more than 50 years, György Pauk became an internationally acclaimed concert violinist, appearing worldwide with the greatest orchestras and conductors, and making countless broadcasts and recordings.
Read the review, The Strad September 2021
FÜSSEN LUTE AND VIOLIN MAKING by Josef Focht, Klaus Martius, Thomas Riedmiller
£60.00
Sold by: Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag
A captivating book with excellent reviews set in the Early Modern Era, when lute making in Füssen played a decisive role in influencing the production of stringed instruments in larger parts of Europe. This was possible because town of Füssen settled on one of the most important trading routes across the Alps. The town had access to valuable and unusual wood types on the northern edge of the Alps for which instrument makers gravitated to capture the heart of their sounds.
Read the review, The Strad, July 2019
An Introduction to the Old Italian Violins (simplified mandarin)
£170.00
Sold by: BEARES PUBLISHING
The book offers an overview of 300 years of violin history. Exploring the historical circumstances in Northern Italy, namely the city of Cremona, where the violin originated, it takes the reader from Andrea Amati's workshop to those of the most famous Cremonese violin makers such as Antonio Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesù and Carlo Bergonzi. From there violin making spread across other Italian and European cities.
Illustrated with more than 600 pictures of instruments, the book is a unique guide to the complex world of violin family instruments; it provides valuable advice on how to choose the best violin, and how to take care of it.
Antonius Stradivarius Volumes I-VIII (Edited by Jost Thöne)
£3,950.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
This eight volume Library Edition is limited to 2.000 copies. Complete with slipcase and DVD.
“Taken together, these eight volumes are a massive achievement, a substantial reset of the standards and quality of documentation, and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the work of the greatest violin maker who ever lived. This is above all a brave project, given the value and importance of these instruments and their often sensitive histories and attributions.”
John Dilworth, The Strad March 2017
Italian and French Violin Makers, Volume I-IV
£1,275.00 – £2,245.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
VIOLIN MAKERS. THE RENAISSANCE OF ITALIAN LUTHERIE
£45.00
Sold by: Scrollavezza & Zanrè
Contemporary Violin Makers
£325.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
The Fulton Collection: A Guided Tour by David Fulton
£120.00
Sold by: The Fulton Collection
Viola
Violin & Viola by Yehudi Menuhin and William Primrose
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
My Viola and I by Lionel Tertis
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
Valentin Berlinsky – A Quartet for Life by Maria Matalaev
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The compiled memoirs of Valentin Berlinsky, cellist with the Borodin Quartet for more than six decades.
Foreword by Steven Isserlis
Read the review, The Strad, June 2019
An Introduction to the Old Italian Violins (simplified mandarin)
£170.00
Sold by: BEARES PUBLISHING
The book offers an overview of 300 years of violin history. Exploring the historical circumstances in Northern Italy, namely the city of Cremona, where the violin originated, it takes the reader from Andrea Amati's workshop to those of the most famous Cremonese violin makers such as Antonio Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesù and Carlo Bergonzi. From there violin making spread across other Italian and European cities.
Illustrated with more than 600 pictures of instruments, the book is a unique guide to the complex world of violin family instruments; it provides valuable advice on how to choose the best violin, and how to take care of it.
Listening through the lens by Christopher Nupen (with sampler DVD)
£30.00
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The official autobiography from BAFTA award-winning film maker, Christopher Nupen, director of The Trout - one of the most watched classical music films.
Foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy
Read the review, The Strad, January 2020
Cello
An Introduction to the Old Italian Violins (simplified mandarin)
£170.00
Sold by: BEARES PUBLISHING
The book offers an overview of 300 years of violin history. Exploring the historical circumstances in Northern Italy, namely the city of Cremona, where the violin originated, it takes the reader from Andrea Amati's workshop to those of the most famous Cremonese violin makers such as Antonio Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesù and Carlo Bergonzi. From there violin making spread across other Italian and European cities.
Illustrated with more than 600 pictures of instruments, the book is a unique guide to the complex world of violin family instruments; it provides valuable advice on how to choose the best violin, and how to take care of it.
Luigi Boccherini – Musica Amorosa by Babette Kaiserkern
£40.00
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The life and works of composer and cellist Luigi Boccherini are explored in this comprehensive new biography. He was highly regarded throughout Europe during his lifetime and the author of around 500 compositions, including symphonies, chamber music and vocal works as well as sonatas and concertos for the cello.
Written by Babette Kaiserkern; Foreword by Steven Isserlis; Translated by Rhona Brose.
Listening through the lens by Christopher Nupen (with sampler DVD)
£30.00
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The official autobiography from BAFTA award-winning film maker, Christopher Nupen, director of The Trout - one of the most watched classical music films.
Foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy
Read the review, The Strad, January 2020
Monograph of the Antonio Stradivari Cello c.1690 ‘Barjansky’
£790.00 – £1,490.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
Probably the most extensive and detailed study of a stringed instrument that has ever been published
Read the review, The Strad July 2021
Valentin Berlinsky – A Quartet for Life by Maria Matalaev
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The compiled memoirs of Valentin Berlinsky, cellist with the Borodin Quartet for more than six decades.
Foreword by Steven Isserlis
Read the review, The Strad, June 2019
Double Bass
Valentin Berlinsky – A Quartet for Life by Maria Matalaev
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The compiled memoirs of Valentin Berlinsky, cellist with the Borodin Quartet for more than six decades.
Foreword by Steven Isserlis
Read the review, The Strad, June 2019
The English Double Bass
£465.00
Sold by: Arpeggio Publishing
A unique leather-bound, limited-edition book exploring the fine double basses made in England - £465 plus P&P
The ultimate collector’s investment for anyone with an interest in fine double basses, The English Double Bass is the authoritative work on double basses made in England. Featuring 766 stunning colour photographs of 100 double basses by 40 of England’s great double bass makers, this 524-page book is a collector’s item. The authors have gathered a rare collection of double basses never seen before and presented them in a beautiful leather-bound case.
ISBN: 978-1-916-4053-0-1
Read the review in The Strad, May 2019
Listening through the lens by Christopher Nupen (with sampler DVD)
£30.00
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The official autobiography from BAFTA award-winning film maker, Christopher Nupen, director of The Trout - one of the most watched classical music films.
Foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy
Read the review, The Strad, January 2020
Music History
Questionario Renzo Bacchetta del 1936
£125.00
Sold by: Luca Bastiani
59 Italian Luthiers Tell Their Story Through the Answers to the 1936 Renzo Bacchetta Survey, where they started to learn their craft and how they learned it.
Including:
Historical introduction
Complete transcriptions of the surveys
Complete translations of the surveys in English
43 labels conserved in the Fondo Renzo Bacchetta
59 pages of photographic details of the original
documents showing the handwriting
and signature of the maker
Hard cover 238 pages
Published in 2021, presented online with the patronage of the state library of Cremona.
Price excluding VAT where present and import taxes.
Read the review in The Strad, January 2020
I Segreti di Sgarabotto
£275.00
Sold by: Scrollavezza & Zanrè
LIMITED EDITION
‘I Segreti di Sgarabotto’
Edizioni Scrollavezza & Zanrè, edited by Andrea Zanrè
Read the review, The Strad, February 2020
The Bowmakers of the Peccatte Family, by Paul Childs
£199.00
Sold by: Magic Bow Publications
Luigi Boccherini – Musica Amorosa by Babette Kaiserkern
£40.00
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The life and works of composer and cellist Luigi Boccherini are explored in this comprehensive new biography. He was highly regarded throughout Europe during his lifetime and the author of around 500 compositions, including symphonies, chamber music and vocal works as well as sonatas and concertos for the cello.
Written by Babette Kaiserkern; Foreword by Steven Isserlis; Translated by Rhona Brose.
Valentin Berlinsky – A Quartet for Life by Maria Matalaev
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The compiled memoirs of Valentin Berlinsky, cellist with the Borodin Quartet for more than six decades.
Foreword by Steven Isserlis
Read the review, The Strad, June 2019
Violin & Viola by Yehudi Menuhin and William Primrose
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
An Introduction to the Old Italian Violins (simplified mandarin)
£170.00
Sold by: BEARES PUBLISHING
The book offers an overview of 300 years of violin history. Exploring the historical circumstances in Northern Italy, namely the city of Cremona, where the violin originated, it takes the reader from Andrea Amati's workshop to those of the most famous Cremonese violin makers such as Antonio Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesù and Carlo Bergonzi. From there violin making spread across other Italian and European cities.
Illustrated with more than 600 pictures of instruments, the book is a unique guide to the complex world of violin family instruments; it provides valuable advice on how to choose the best violin, and how to take care of it.
My Viola and I by Lionel Tertis
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
Jean Pierre Marie Persoit: His Life and Work, by Paul Childs
£105.00
Sold by: Magic Bow Publications
Listening through the lens by Christopher Nupen (with sampler DVD)
£30.00
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The official autobiography from BAFTA award-winning film maker, Christopher Nupen, director of The Trout - one of the most watched classical music films.
Foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy
Read the review, The Strad, January 2020
Other
Antonius Stradivarius Volumes I-VIII (Edited by Jost Thöne)
£3,950.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
This eight volume Library Edition is limited to 2.000 copies. Complete with slipcase and DVD.
“Taken together, these eight volumes are a massive achievement, a substantial reset of the standards and quality of documentation, and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the work of the greatest violin maker who ever lived. This is above all a brave project, given the value and importance of these instruments and their often sensitive histories and attributions.”
John Dilworth, The Strad March 2017
VIOLIN MAKERS. THE RENAISSANCE OF ITALIAN LUTHERIE
£45.00
Sold by: Scrollavezza & Zanrè
Antonius Stradivarius Volumes I-VIII (Edited by Jost Thöne) – De Luxe Edition
£17,457.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
This beautiful De Luxe Edition is an investment of a lifetime. Limited to 100 copies, it is leather-bound with gilt edges; the volumes are individually numbered and registered.
“Taken together, these eight volumes are a massive achievement, a substantial reset of the standards and quality of documentation, and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the work of the greatest violin maker who ever lived. This is above all a brave project, given the value and importance of these instruments and their often sensitive histories and attributions.”
John Dilworth, The Strad March 2017
Listening through the lens by Christopher Nupen (with sampler DVD)
£30.00
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
The official autobiography from BAFTA award-winning film maker, Christopher Nupen, director of The Trout - one of the most watched classical music films.
Foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy
Read the review, The Strad, January 2020
If you would like to become a third-party merchant on The Strad Shop, please contact Gavin Saunders
Popular items produced by The Strad
Antonio Stradivari ‘King Carlos IV’ violin 1709 poster
£22.95
Sold by: The Strad Shop
The ‘King Carlos IV’ is one of the few instruments remaining from the collection of the Spanish king, who ruled from 1788 to 1808. Made during Stradivari’s ‘golden period’, it is one of the rare examples that is so well preserved that its sound is seldom matched by other violins of the era. The maple back has deep, wide flames descending slightly, which shimmer like water in the light. The scroll is incredibly round and bold, displaying an ultimate strength in making.
Florian Leonhard examines its history and present condition in The Strad magazine July 2023
Violin Bundle
Sold by: The Strad Shop
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For string players and teachers, The Strad's Masterclass and Technique sections are a treasure trove of knowledge, information and playing advice. Some of the world's best-known teachers and soloists have given their top tips on how to get the best out of your instrument, and perform some of the greatest works in the repertoire.
Cello Bundle
Sold by: The Strad Shop
July 2023
£5.95
Sold by: The Strad Shop
We examine the 1709 ‘King Carlos IV’ Stradivari violin and chat to US fiddler Mark O’Connor. There’s a look at the early history of Brahms’s Violin Concerto and cellist Thomas Demenga gives a Debussy Masterclass. Plus our annual Accessories supplement.
Read the review in The Strad
June 2023
£5.95
Sold by: The Strad Shop
British cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson discusses her influences and we report on the efforts to help young displaced musicians from Ukraine. There’s a Masterclass on Fauré and we mark the 100th anniversary of Ligeti’s birth. Plus Francesca Dego’s Sentimental Work.
Read more in The Strad
BUNDLE – In Focus and In Focus 2
Sold by: The Strad Shop
The In Focus anthologies brings together many of the world’s most fascinating stringed instruments, with commentaries by today’s top instrument experts.
Both books feature exceptional high-quality photographs for every featured instrument – front, back and scroll – and will provide inspiration for today’s makers and anyone who enjoys the beauty and variety of stringed instruments.
This bundle includes:
- In Focus (with new limited edition cover)
- In Focus 2
