The Cozio Archive
Welcome to Cozio, the world’s largest reference resource for buyers, sellers and connoisseurs of fine stringed instruments and bows.
Founded in 2003 as a public registry of iconography, provenance and pricing information for historical stringed instruments, Cozio encompasses over 36,000 individual instruments and bows by over 3,500 makers. It is also the most comprehensive online source for maker biographies and provenance information, and contains over 57,000 historical auction prices.
Although most of Cozio is available to the public by subscription, it also contains photographs, documents and records of instruments and bows that are accessible only by request. If you would like information about any item that is not publicly available, please contact us.
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The ‘Casals’ Goffriller, loaned to the winner of the 2026 Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition
The finals of the Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition will be held in Brussels next week. The competition asked Jason Price and Matthijs Strick to write about the magnificent 'Casals' Goffriller cello which will be loaned to the First Laureate of the 2026 competition.
By Jason Price and Matthijs StrickPablo Casals stands as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, and at the heart of his artistic identity was a single instrument: a Goffriller cello made in Venice in the early 18th century. Casals was also a close friend of Queen Elisabeth of Belgium; a bond grounded in music, humanism and mutual […]
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