Baroque Violin after Nicolò Amati 1649 - the 'Alard' The Amati 'Alard' is the instrument that really got me excited about violin making many years ago. I held it in my hands at the Ashmolean museum in…
Tromba Marina
Tromba Marina (trumpet marine) The instrument pictured here is an eighteenth century Tromba Marina (trumpet marine) copied from an instrument by Sebastien Renault, which is now in the Instrument Museu…
Pochette (dancing master\’s violin)
Pochette (dancing master's violin) These instruments are based on an original now in the Victoria and Albert Museum by Jacques Du Mensil made in 1647. The instruments pictured here have maple bodies w…
Lirone (lira da gamba)
Lirone (lira da gamba) The instrument shown here is an 11 string lirone, based on instruments by Gasparo da Salo of Brescia. Among instruments by him that survive is one in Leipzig that is presumed to…
Baroque barytons
Baroque barytons The Baroque baryton is principally a self-accompanying, solo instrument with its plucked strings tuned one octave below those of the more familiar classical instrument. The plucked st…
Clasical barytons
Classical barytons These are Classical barytons, based on instruments by the Stadlmanns (D. A. Stadlmann c.1715 and J.J. Stadlmann c. 1750 - once in the possession of Haydn's patron Prince Nikolaus Es…
Treble viols
Treble viols This treble viol is an instrument of my own design but scaled from the 1649 Anon bass that has been very sucessfull for me. The string length is 38 cm and the instruments shown are made o…
Tenor viols
Tenor viols The tenor shown below is scaled from the anon 1649 bass, which has been my most popular. Having found the treble viol by John Hoskins (1609) to be a very successful model, I decided to enl…
Seven string bass viol after Romain Cheron
Seven string bass viol after Romain Cheron When I received the drawings for this instrument I was amazed to discover that the outline of the body was almost identical to that of my anon 1649 six strin…
Small bass viol after Barak Norman
Six string bass viol after Barak Norman Small bass viol after Barak Norman 1697 with a string length of 64.5cm.…