William Robert Scott Cello Minneapolis, 2016 Bill Scott is an award-winning American violin maker who built his first instrument in 1977 and opened his own workshop in the Twin Cities in 1986 after training at Dahl Violin Shop and apprenticing with Hans Weisshaar. Widely respected for his craftsmanship, Scott has earned three gold medals, five silver medals, and numerous Certificates of Merit from the Violin Society of America, achieving Hors Concours status in 2006. A former president of the...

L: 2023 Eduard Miller Viola, L: ca. 1765 Vinaccia Family Violin… can you tell which strings are on each instrument? Have you ever come to the moment where your strings have gone false, and you think "Man, I should order another set of these"... and then realized you can't remember what type of strings you put on your instrument in the first place? We have the fix for you! At first we figured we'd go through all the string makers' websites to put together a chart for string identification, but...

A cello that was the victim of a falling device attack We thought it might be nice to address something that's not often discussed, but that we see fairly frequently in the repair shop: injuries from falling phones and tablets! We've got these technological juggernauts hanging out in our hands and pockets all day, and it's very easy to forget that they've got enough mass in their little bodies to totally cream a nicely carved thin piece of wood! These problems seem to happen in all sorts of...