Violin Making & Appraisal Association of Korea

08/01/2019

Happy New Year 2019 with you all who liked this page!! Thank you for your interest and support for Violin Making and Violins!!

10/08/2018

Hometown of Stradivarius

22/04/2015

Stockholm, Sweden 2010
Photo by Goldie Choi

30/06/2011

13/04/2011

Insurance: Replacement value by Lark Insurance Broking Group

The top is made of two pieces of spruce of medium wide grain. The one piece back is made of wide curle maple descending from left to right. The ribs and the scroll are of similar plain maple matching the back. The varnish is a red brown color.

30/03/2011

" I certify that the viola in the possession of Mr. Raymond Ballog of Chicago, Illinois is ascribed as being made by Laurentius Storioni. It bears a label reading Laurentius Storioni Cremonae 1797....Cleveland, Ohio, July 12. 2000 by Dr. Peter Zaret"

30/03/2011

Cozio.com: the most comprehensive source for identification and pricing information about fine stringed instruments.

28/03/2011

Copy of Gueanerius, produced in Italy
Middle of 1900's

28/03/2011

Albani Mathias 2 (1650-1715): Son and pupil of the preceding. After some years in his father's workshop he travelled to Cremona to receive instruction from(and subsequently worked for) Amati. Later established a business at Rome but eventually returned to Brozen. The high model of his early instruments suggests the infulence of his father, but the later ones show but faint marks of that tutorlage. These invariably well adhere to the Amati of medium high type. Certainly the whole contour is more Italian than Tyrolese. Beautifully shaded orange-red varnish(sometimes). Wood frequently of beautiful figure, often fine-grain top, and occasionally one-piece back. Unequal workmanship, sometimes showing remarkably fine finish(which has now and then been mistaken for Cremonese work) yet at other times deserving only of faint praise. Rather even tone, and of fairly rich quality, but not absolutely captivating. ( Universal Dictionary Of Violin& Bow Makers by William Henley)

23/03/2011

Violin made by Sung S*k Choi @ Chicago, 1999