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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
Contemporary Violin Makers
£325.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
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
Italian and French Violin Makers, Volume I-IV
£1,275.00 – £2,245.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
Jean Baptiste Vuillaume
£230.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
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
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
My Viola and I by Lionel Tertis
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
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
The Bowmakers of the Peccatte Family, by Paul Childs
£199.00
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
The Essential Handbook for Violinists’ by Rebecca Houghton
£20.00
Sold by: Viva Violins
The Fulton Collection: A Guided Tour by David Fulton
£120.00
Sold by: The Fulton Collection
The Golden Age of Violin Making in Spain
£485.00
Sold by: Tritó Edicions
Tourte Le Jeune (The Tourte Exhibition of London, November 2008)
£99.00
Sold by: Magic Bow Publications
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
Violin and Bow Makers, Volume 1
£40.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
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
