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Hi James, Thanks for your post and I apologize in advance if my prior post came off the wrong way as that was certainly not my intention. Now that you've explained your strategy I can certainly understand buyer's wanting to be discrete and not wanting to have their purchased broadly advertised. Like you said it's a balance, but if you want my opinion I do think you need to leverage on previous big sales in order to market and attract more business. From my perspective as someone whose a relative newcomer to the auction seen if I ever wanted to sell my cello I would seek out the auction house that comes across as has having the greatest reach and if I'm being very honest I just don't feel that Amati comes across as being a top auction house (even though I know you've had a long and established history.) Also, as another suggestion in the lead up to the auction I think it would be nice to give more time for people to look through the instruments as 10 days seems like such a short time. This is especially true for people who don't live in London it help to for those debating whether to fly over (although at least for the short term looks like traveling is difficult or not advisable during this virus.) Anyhow, I see that you have an auction for this month and I look forward to seeing what cello's you have.

Brompton's is auctioning a Viola Da Gamba that they say "could quite easily be the instrument left by Hoffman to his friend by Johann Sebasitan Bach." Any thoughts on this instrument? https://www.bromptons.co/auction/9th-23rd-march-2020/lots/164-a-very-fine-viola-da-gamba-by-johann-christian-hoffmann-leipzig-circa1730.html

Doesn't seem like they really sell anything of significance these days?

Are there any other auction houses that are worth looking at besides Tarisio, Ingles & Hayday, and Brompton's?

Wow... so it going to far to say that he's a con-artist by trying to claim his instruments were other's?

There is a cello on Tarisio that's labelled Ernesto Pevere, but Tarisio says it's by Mario Gadda. https://tarisio.com/auctions/auction/lot/?csid=2199126016&cpid=3655139328 So I'm trying to understand what's going on here. Are they basically saying that Mario Gadda copied Ernesto Pevere and that he created a fake certificate saying the cello is by Ernesto Pevere when he's the actual maker? I've been reading a lot a threads about Mario Gadda and how there so many fakes. Obviously, this is very concerning ... Curious to understand how this affects the value of the instrument given all this uncertainty...

Hi there TarisioAuctions. I would like to clarify what it means if there is no adjective describing the instrument. For example, when you say "An Italian cello" versus "A good/fine Italian cello" in the former instance does that there are condition issues/problems with the instrument. I'd like to also like to ask when you put down the adjective "fine" that it generally also means the condition of the instrument is in good or excellent/mint condition? From what I have observed when you have used the the word "fine" the instruments look to be in best condition when compared to the other cellos that don't have "fine"

Any thoughts on this cello “attributed to” David Tecchler? Very big ... https://tarisio.com/auctions/auction/lot/?csid=2199191552&cpid=3591946240&filter_key=

Anybody have any thoughts on the most desired Italian cello makers from mid to late 20th century? I did some light research and names like Otello Bignami, Gaetano Gadda, Renato Scrollavezza, etc. I'm curious mainly because it generation before them (Poggi, Pedrazinni, Garimberti, Fiorini, just to name a few) their instruments are already becoming unattainable (i.e. expensive) so I'm looking at the this generation.

I posted this in Pegbox, but I figure this is maybe more applicable here. Anybody have experience playing with Yumba Rosin? Anybody feedback from cellist would be most appreciated. https://yumba.com.ar/en/

There is a Victor Fetique cello bow up for auction. Any thoughts?

Does anybody have experience with this rosin (in particular with cello?) Is it a good rosin for gut strings?

Also wanted to add that these pegs are going on a 5 string cello. I've been advised that the peg head needs to be smaller than a standard cello due to space/room concerns between the pegs. I need something around 30mm to 33mm.

Thanks. I should have been more specific. I really only need the head because I’m going to send them off to Peghead where they are going to covert it to a geared peg.

Anybody have any recommendations as to where to get custom cello pegs? Ideally, A place that has a variety of styles and selections.