Finding the right strings for your instrument can feel like an endless journey.  You can even make a convincing argument that it IS an endless

While most people familiar with the construction of violin family instruments associate maple with the wood of choice for the back and ribs (sides), poplar

It’s that time of year again!  Even in these strange pandemic times, students have the opportunity to engage with their instrument and challenge themselves through

Another temporary COVID casualty is the production of Sloane bass tuning gears, considered the best available by many people.  I am confident that production will

If you’ve been around our page or in the shop, you know I’m a fan of Pegheds – internally geared pegs for cellos.  The advantages

You can buy a 1970 Porsche 917 for $14 million dollars or you can come in and pick out one of these beautiful cases for

As a cellist and violin shop manager, I’ve seen just about every conceivable product and method for storing and displaying cellos.  Stands, boxes, cabinets, carts…there

Learning to play a violin-family instrument is challenging.  Holding the bow, proper posture, tuning the instrument, don’t collapse the wrist, keep your thumb bent, etc. 

No, I promise I won’t start singing numbers from “The Sound of Music”, but I have been thinking about my favorite things.  As you can

A while ago I wrote about putting a full set of Pirastro Eudoxa gut-core strings on a Jay Haide Vuillaume model cello here in the

I received a great question recently from a local orchestra director.  I believe she fielded the question from a student in her class and it

Last week we talked a bit about gut strings and mentioned we’d be putting them on one of our shop cellos – well, they’re here

I love gut strings.  Well, I should say I love the SOUND of gut strings.  The expense, tuning instability, fragility, longevity…let’s just say there are

Of all the things I figured we might run short on during the summer, basses were not one of them!  It just goes to show

Rosin.  If you play a violin-family instrument and use a bow with horsehair, you are familiar with the stuff.  It comes in many price points,

One of the items that really flies off the shelves at the beginning of every school year are mutes.  But which one?  When customers ask

All you need to do is turn on the news or fire up your preferred social media outlet and you can find an avalanche of

What a year.  Against the backdrop of COVID-19, the 2020-2021 school year begins.  I can’t think of another moment in my lifetime when so many