Carbon Fiber – material of the future?

Carbon Fiber – material of the future?

Carbon fiber.  Once a highly esoteric, expensive, cutting edge piece of materials technology, it is now nearly ubiquitous in applications demanding a high strength-to-weight ratio.  The aerospace industry pioneered the modern use of carbon fiber composites in turbine...
Let’s Talk About Cases

Let’s Talk About Cases

We’ve been taking a slow tour around the shop, explaining the differences between the instruments first, the bows second, and now the cases.  While I’m not going into the kind of detail that will explain the differences between every single model of case and bag for...

R-O-Y-G-B-I-V

You may be asking yourself what the colors of the rainbow have to do with orchestral string instruments… CASES!  Yes, we have an abundance of “cello shaped” Tonareli cases for violin and viola currently in the shop that includes almost every color of the rainbow and...