Dwight Brown

I must admit nothing in this sale is pulling at my heart strings. They need to hire me to come polish the bows a bit for photographs. I hate the look of tarnish. DLB

I didn't have to do anything this last year, They just didn't charge me. DLB

https://tarisio.com/auctions/auction/lot/?csid=2199289856&cpid=3683074048&filter_key= I wish someone would take a shot at an attribution or point of origin. It would be a lot to spend on "A Viola" It looks like it has had an active life but also like it may be time for it's 1,000,000,000 mile service appointment. DLB Sorry, I missed that the title of the video suggested Milan. Does it look cut down?

I am not an expert on taxes. I have bought a bow from Tarisio London. I did not pay any VAT, there is no duty on used bows coming into the USA (Even really expensive ones) That was my experience, your mileage may vary DLB

https://www.stewmac.com/benedetto/benedetto-palm-plane.html I really don't know anything but I thought these looked nice. DLB

https://tarisio.com/auctions/auction/lot/?csid=2199289856&cpid=3687399424&filter_key= This was something else to begin with ? https://tarisio.com/auctions/auction/lot/?csid=2199289856&cpid=3683074048&filter_key= Looks like a good player https://tarisio.com/auctions/auction/lot/?csid=2199289856&cpid=3671506944&filter_key= This small French viola does not look it's age? DLB

I guess my question is why it isn't in a regular Tarisio auction. The lift is probably part of it. DLB

Signed by all of them. DLB

https://t2-auctions.com/auctions/lot/?csid=2199273472&cpid=3604037632 The certificate for this bow is from a group that I would consider very important, all three of them excellent makers and well known experts. Why is the bow being sold as a no name bow? It is quite heavy but I don't think that should matter. Seems rather odd anyway. DLB

Fence pickets for privacy fences are often cedar. DLB

I wonder given how much better cases are now if instruments will ever wear as much as the old ones. DLB

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/marl/CASL/documents/Condax-CelloPodium.pdf

One of my teachers at Interlochen knew Mr. Condax very well. He played his premier recital at Carnegie recital hall on a cello made by Condax. Louie attended With a sound post setter and various other set up tools in his inside coat pockets! I am very interested in photographic history and L.C. did really important early work on color processes. I even got to see one of the three color separation cameras needed for the process. There is a woodworker here in Texas that has made a few of his cello podium to good effect,

https://josephcurtinstudios.com/the-violin-makers-dilemma/

I have commissioned a few instruments from different makers in the last little while. What I tell them is to finish it the way their artistic sense tells them to. I want them to make the instrument as beautiful as they can make it and to follow their own esthetic. I want them to do it the way they feel it. DLB