Paul Childs was a violinist by training who developed a profound love of old French bows early in...

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

Beloved instrument collector Shi Wen-Long passed away Saturday, November 18th at the age of 96....

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

As none other, Francois Tourte was born to make bows. We must imagine him as a young man...

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

The period in which Guarneri made the ‘Baltic’ was significant for the young maker: He moved into a...

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

The catalog for our November auction in New York goes online tomorrow, October 26th. There are some very...

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 Berlin sale before the catalog goes online...

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

Berlin-based historian Joseph Pearson has written a new book about everyday objects that tell stories...

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

This week's Carteggio features an excerpt from Dmitry Gindin's new book The Modern Italian Violinmakers....

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

Our July auction in New York includes an exciting range of instruments, and this week, I’m pleased to...

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

This Sunday, April 25th, we invite you to join us for an online event celebrating the launch of...

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

Today was April Fools’, and in line with our long tradition of prankery, we pretended that we had...

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

As with people, instruments too have stories. They tell of great romances and distant voyages, familial dramas, moving...

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

In 2015 I was contacted by Angela Ortiz Muñoz, a finance doctoral candidate at the University of Luxemburg,...

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

The life of Joseph Gillott whose violin collection caused a sensation when it was sold in 1872

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

The story of Beethoven’s quartet of instruments, which was recently reunited at the Beethoven-Haus museum...

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

Leonora Jackson McKim and the 1709 Stradivari violin that bears her name, by Alessandra Barabaschi

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

Ten stolen instruments and some dramatic recoveries, including the ‘Ames, Totenberg’ Strad

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

Charles Beare shares memories of his friend Jacqueline du Pré and her cellos

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

Carla Shapreau investigates how the digital revolution has affected the violin market

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

We examine the influence of Scarampella on the modern Mantuan school, part 2

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

Thirteen fine decorated bows from the collection of German expert Walter Hamma