Category Archives: Finished projects

Three 15 1/2″ violas

German viola around 1920 at Ilja Grawert violin shop workshop Brisbane Australia

As I am very busy here in my North Queensland workshop building and restoring instruments I do not find the time to put these wonderful three violas in my webshop. They are between $5,000-$10,000 with all three beautiful and even sound, 15 1/2 inch body length so easy to play with still no compromise in […]

Full size studio cello sounds perfect now

full size studio cello at Ilja Grawert violin maker in Brisbane australia

After the full size studio cello was varnished and set-up it still needed some fine adjustments, a lot of playing and figuring out which are the best strings to support its beautiful sound. Now after two extra month of fine tuning the cello it is a very vibrant, ringing but warm and deep sounding cello. […]