After spending the last few month building the two studio cellos and the studio 15 1/2″ viola, and restoring two more old German ~1920s viola and old Hungarian/German ~ 1950s viola, all are now set-up and ready to be played. I am extremely happy with the sound of all 5 instruments. The cellos are very different, The full size cello has a very full warm and beautiful tone, speaks easy. The 7/8 cello has a more powerful outgoing tone with still a lot of beauty. All three violas have a deep very even sound speak easy and have beautiful but strong A strings. The cellos are already in my web-shop. The violas will be online presented in about 3 weeks time as my son Reuben usually takes the much better photos. He is not here in Brisbane with me but he is keeping the North Queensland workshop open. If you have interest in more information about the violas or cellos ….please email me to contact@grawert.com.au or sms to 0437 88 2468
This will make space for my next project a 3/4 studio violin, finishing a fully handmade violin on order, as well as finally developing the extra large violin for the viola player so it doesn’t feel so small and some other surprises.
Then obviously there are a lot of smaller or larger repairs and restorations which belong to customers and I will not publish.
Obviously I have my favorites out of these five… but do not like to publish here.
