British Violin Making Association

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MAKER’S DETAILS

Oxford Violins

Specialism

Makers of new instruments. We also restore and

adjust instruments and deal in old ones.

Contact

Michael Kearns, Bruno Guastalla (instruments)

Mark Yakoushkin (bows)

67 Banbury Road

Oxford

OX2 6PE

Tel: +44 (0) 1865 556558

Email: scroll@oxfordviolins.com

Website: www.oxfordviolins.com

About Us

We have been active in the city of Oxford since 1983, Dialogue with musicians and delighting in the work of the "Old Masters" inform our approach to making. The instruments illustrated here are:

A viola by Michael Kearns (2010), bench copy of a Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi
A violin by Bruno Guastalla (2011), modeled after Guarneri del Gesu, commissioned by Briony Shaw (leader of the seconds, CBSO Birmingham)

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