I noticed the offering of a quartet of gold-mounted Finkel bows on the current tarisio.com auction
http://tarisio.com/pages/auction/auction_item.php?csid=2197995520&cpid=3240460288&sCategory_ID=33
Perhaps I just didn't notice it before but is see there is also attached tarisio.com endangered species policy.
http://tarisio.com/pages/about/endangered.php
Indicative of the times in which we live.
I am quite surprised by this, it's not being sold by one of the big "dealers" "collectors" "scammers" or whatever you wish to call those who participate in ripping people on through ebay.
So what is it? It's not a Ventapane I'm certain of that, it looks German or maybe even Bohemian to me, am I right?
I notice two David Tecchler's up for auction at tarisio.com and amati.com respectively this month.
Condition and 'composition' accounting for the discrepancy in asking price?
All the same an interesting comparison.
The one on the left seems to suggest more of the Stainer influence in model.
I bought this violin from a private owner who knew nothing about violins. It has a lot of repairs, soundpost crack, cracked ribs, numerous cracks in the table and a crack in the back. Yet, the violin still sounds pretty good and the workmanship is of a high quality. Oh yeah did I mention someone messed with the varnish?
I'm curious about it's origins, my guess is French early 19th century but might as well be made somewhere slightly more to the right of the map...
Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
It has a stradivarius label inside
Hello,
I am sorry for posting about an Ebay 'rubbish' cello and even mentioning epoxy resin to violinmakers.
This seemed very lovely; it sold for € 365 000 last week (outbid again 
). I would be interested to learn anything about this kind of cello. Thank you.
http://www.ogerblanchet.fr/html/fiche.jsp?id=3729279&np=7&lng=fr&npp=20&ordre=1&aff=1&r=
Sorry, I am trying to make these images smaller...
http://tarisio.com/pages/auction/auction_item.php?csid=2197995520&cpid=3240181760&sCategory_ID=36
and
http://tarisio.com/pages/auction/auction_item.php?csid=2197995520&cpid=3240165376&sCategory_ID=36
Both say they are with original baroque setup. No bids on either one. I realize that 99 of 100 people looking for a fiddle expect a modern setup, partly why there are so few left in the original state. Are these just uninteresting instruments or is that a big disadvantage? Bidders look at them and think they will have to modernize them to resell them and they aren't worth it? If they are any good (I can't tell) they are the sorts of things I'd love to have, but I'm not the average person that walks into a violin shop.
garyr
Dear members of this forum!
I feel sorry, that I found this forum only now, after googling the name of the seller of this violin:
Will it be of any value? Do I have to send it back? How many times it may have been on ebay?
I did not get it yet and could not try it, nor have I seen the label inside ...
Thanks in advance for your opinion or advice.
KSelbach
Hello, would anyone care to comment on this Ebay # 271433266472, a 1756 Bairhoff violin. Thanks,OT
The next Skinner musical instrument auction catalog has been published online, and apparently they have maintained the conservative attribution policy demonstrated in their previous musical instrument auction. The estimate on this violin seems to indicate that they know it's "fine" but they seem unable or unwilling to place this in a particular violin-making tradition or even a century, though they say that the hole in the back of the pegbox is to facilitate hanging (I thought it was to facilitate changing the A string). Is this to keep musicians (like me) away? I'm guessing this isn't "the usual." Maybe someone here can help them out. I'm just curious, myself.
http://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2717B/lots/15
Paul
Press release indicating USD 45 million base price:
New York Times article with embedded video of David Aaron Carpenter playing the Macdonald viola:
Wishing you good listening and bidding!
I'm pretty sure it's Italian. Special deal for Maestronetters. I can let you have it for $90 million. 
I am not an eBayer (hate on-line shopping, like to see stuff before I purchase it, hate S&H fees and unexpected Customs fees, *blahblahblah*)...but there are a few items I'm currently purchasing through "Buy Now" on eBay to (stuff I can't find easily or locally)...so I'll see if I find it a useful venue. So, in other words, I'm new at this.
While I'm making these purchases - and to scratch a long-standing itch, I have been trying to buy an instrument from China. So it can't be too expensive. Hence I'm trying the auction route.
I can't for the life of me win a bid. I've been doing this for 2 weeks now and have bid on over 7 instruments from different sellers. I get beat out at the very last nanosecond every single time.
Are these auctions rigged? Or does someone actually sit - on every auction - with their finger hovering over the bid button...and they all have faster internet than I do?
Since there are a number of knowledgeable makers and experts on this forum from Germany and Austria, I thought I'd ask about this maker and whether his work, and the work of Regensburg makers in general, is well appreciated on the other side of the Rhine. I've always been fascinated by the pictures of Buchstetter's violins I grew up looking at in my father's Hamma book on German makers, and it has always seemed to me that Buchstetter was one of the first German makers to start using a Strad model. One hears about Geissenhoff as the "Viennese Stradivari", and of course we've all heard of the Stoss that went to Switzerland and came back as a certified Strad (I played on it, once) but I never hear anyone saying much about Buchstetter, even though he started making long Strad models almost 50 years before Geissenhoff.
I've been wanting to try one for years, and I finally got the chance recently. I'm impressed by what a fine violin this one is. My first impression is that it's comparable to many fine early Strad copies I've played, like Piques and Lupots. Looking up Regensburg makers in my Hamma books, I see a steady tradition of Cremonese inspired violin making from Buchstetter to Fischer to Schultz to Kosler. Are these makers a "best-kept secret" among German violinists, or do they generally not live up to there looks sound-wise?
How about those sound holes? Feels a little art deco, right?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/OLD-RARE-GERMAN-VIOLA-Ch-KROGH-1929-see-VIDEO-BRATSCHE-VIOLIN-/321363714945
Body reminds me of Luis and Clark.
I would be interested to know what this is; is it a 'trade' instrument? Could it be made playable again from its current state?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=261395774591
Thank you
Hi ,
I'm looking for a nice old French cello, and so I found thid cello on Ebay :
The question is : is this cello REAL or fake?
Can anyone give me some advice?
cello :
"FRENCH CELLO Fait sous la Direction de PAUL JOMBAR" :
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121301228499?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
--> label looks maybe fake, varnish and type of wood look not FRench?
I have seen many fake instruments sold on Ebay, so I better ask before I buy (-:
thanks !
A.
People seem to brace themselves for a new record at the auction of the Stradivarius MacDonald viola.
