Maple Violins

16/04/2024

It's not often a violin arrives in the paper bag it was sold in over 74 years ago.
Branded: 'J. Turner' on the neck, 'Turner London' on the bottom rib and 'Turner' twice under the bridge (!) 🎻
Made around 1840, it remains its original neck, unaltered and original fittings with the boxwood pegs now separate.

22/06/2023

Calling musicians in the east midlands & the Fens! Visit charming Stamford for our open day with .
Book now whilst we still have space available.

12/06/2023

Really looking forward to meeting musicians in at Stamford Strings in Stamford, Lincs, the charming Georgian town, where my Dad (and old John Betts) were born.
Great train links in all directions (one stop from Peterborough) and just off the A1.

Spend a pleasant day in its historic splendor, riverside meadows, boutique shops and the Elizabethan majesty of Burghley House, whilst receiving a free valuation and health check on your violin, viola, cello or bow.
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10/06/2023

Really looking forward to 4th July!

Founded by luthier Libby Summers. Stringed instruments for all budgets. Specialist set-up. Servicing

07/06/2023

Written in Gladstone's typical convoluted manner (in fact one love letter contained a sentence consisting of 141 words with 18 clauses and subclasses), the towering 19th century politician and former Prime Minister displays his love and admiration for music; this, not the only occasion.

01/06/2023

Unusual etching attributed to the French artist Jean Honore Fragonard, Paris (1732-1806).
Though no stranger to musical themes in his more typical painting (slide to see 'the music lesson), this appears to show severe mental disorder. Now in the National Library of Medicine, MD.

26/05/2023

George Wulme Hudson is regarded as one of England's finest copyists.
This fine example from 1920 shows his full virtuosity and is newly available through us .
It has been the owner's primary instrument for the last half century and we are honoured to have been entrusted with its sale.
Please DM for further details.

25/05/2023

A favourite Theme of David Park in his return to figurative art after rejecting the 'egotism' of abstract expressionism.

18/05/2023

Mario Girardi studied with Gaetano Sgarabotto in Milan before establishing himself in Trieste in 1930.
His work owes more to his training in Milan than the influence of the Trieste school.
This instrument is a good model from his later period, the property of a musician.
For sale

12/05/2023

Stradivari made the Medici Quintet for Grand Prince Ferdinando de Medici and brokered by Bartolomeo Ariberti.
After an initial commission of two violins and a Cello, two violas (Tenor and Contralto) were requested to complete the Quintet in 1690. Of these instruments, the Tenor Viola and Cello are still in Florence on display at the Accademia, along with a violin from 1716 'Medici, Tuscan', perhaps kadevas a replacement for one of the original violins.

By far the best preserved is the Tenor Viola shown here (with the Cello behind) which remarkably retails it's original neck, fingerboard, tailpiece, endpin and bridge!
The Medici crest is inlaid into the fingerboard whilst the tailpiece shows a cupid about to shoot an arrow with a floral motif below.

Alessandra Barabaschi has written an excellent two part essay on the Medici Quintet for Tarisio.

02/05/2023