Born in Bern in 1926, Hansheinz Schneeberger studied with Walter Kägi, Carl Flesch and Boris Kamensky. In 1958...

Instruments by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume were all the rage in the mid-19th century. His production was...

Jean-Luc Ponty live in concert in São Paulo in 1980. When I started playing jazz in the early...

Violin backs are typically made of maple that has distinctive horizontal stripes called flame. The...

I know that not everyone loves graphs and data. Personally, I often find data dizzying and glaze over,...

No man is an island,” wrote the poet John Donne in 1624, and he was right: Unquestionably, our...

After Paris and London, Berlin was the third urban center of violin making. There is mention of Berlin’s...

The catalog for our June auction in New York goes online today, May 17. There are some very...

Celebrated French bowmaker Stéphane Thomachot consigned a particularly meaningful bow to our March Berlin sale:...

In anticipation of Thursday’s sale of the ‘ex-Perlman, Klausner’ Peter Guarneri of Venice, we prepared...

With descriptions of over 1,000 bows, the Wurlitzer bow archive speaks of careers and artistic decisions and of...

Jason Price previews featured highlights of our October London sale before the catalog goes online...

Data shows that instruments follow musicians and the economic trends of our times.

Technological advances over the past fifty years have enhanced the study and trade of historical stringed instruments. Digital...

Toscha Seidel was born in Odessa on November 17, 1899. He studied in St. Petersburg with Leopold Auer,...

David Fulton, arguably the world’s most important living collector of violins, has just written a...

This week's carteggio presents an excerpt from the forthcoming publication TOURTE by Paul Childs and...

Last week, I shared an overview of our July sale in New York. Today, I'm going to look...

I am pleased to share a preview of some of the highlights of our upcoming June auction. It’s...

Born on October 13, 1911 into a family of musicians in Biarritz, André Navarra was, from an early...

Antonio Antoncich Craglietto was born into a modest family in the small Croatian fishing village...

Recently, impressive strides have been made in the science of extracting meaning and concepts from...

Thank you! Submissions are now closed.   Please find the REAL Carteggio here (The following text and submissions...

Any responsible discussion of violin labels begins with a caveat: most labels you will see are false. Refuse...

Last week I introduced the Balestrieri, Vuillaume and Testore from our March auction and this...

I am pleased to offer an advance preview of some highlights from our March auction. It's a diverse...

‘I have, I don’t know why, my own antipathy to see a woman with a violin, perhaps because...

Our latest maker challenge, featuring the highlights from our March 2020 London auction

Tully Potter explores the violins of Henri Vieuxtemps to mark the 200th anniversary of the virtuoso’s birth

How did you fare in our February New York highlights quiz? Full questions and answers here

Why is there such a price discrepancy between Vuillaume and his talented contemporaries, asks Marie...

Baroque violinist Rachel Podger talks about her 18th-century violin, thought to be by the rare...

‘America’s greatest violinist’ – the career of the early 20th-century virtuoso Maud Powell

Tall tales, a fake Strad and a lot of Guarneris – the violins of Fritz Kreisler

Stradivari's sons part 2 – detecting their hands in Antonio's work

John Dilworth goes in search of Stradivari's sons, part 1

Jason Price reflects on Tarisio's first 15 years of violin auctions

We go in search of the mysterious collector Baron Johann Knoop

John Dilworth discusses the importance of Count Cozio’s Carteggio for violin experts today

Jason Price introduces the newly integrated Cozio and Tarisio archives

A rare and charming pair of instruments from 19th-century Copenhagen

Two rare Genoese violins from the early 18th century