W E Hill Sons ceased trading in 1991 and string players from all over the world continually seek out their fine products, in particular the bows which often are sold on Ebay. Hills employed and trained the...
This is fairly brief and to the point and comes from a teacher's frustration when a pupil comes with a totally useless violin that fond parents/ grandparents have bought without consulting me. Firstly consult...
The viola is now classed as an "endangered species" by local authority music providers. Youth orchestras, which are the flagship showpieces of music services, are hard pressed to find enough players to make a...
Playing the violin is a skill requiring coordination allied to good aural perception. The instrument is in fact in 2 seperate parts, the violin and the bow which work together using entirely different...
I Have just noticed a very dubious W E Hill Sons certificate on Ebay, for an Italian Violin from the early 1700s. being offered at a high price. The certificate was of a violin submitted to Hills and not sold...
Jean-Francois Raffin is an authority sought after by many buyers of fine bows. His certificates provide a reliable guide in a market where the average price of an antique French bow is well over five times...
The Voller Brothers were clever Victorian copyists and fakers of violins. Their work is now highly valued and ironically fakes of the fakers are appearing. One, at the time of writing, on eBay is labelled as a...