William and the Andrea

William and the Andrea

One of the first classical Italian instruments I ever worked on was a cello made by Andrea Guarneri in 1690. Perhaps because it was the first, but also because I was already interested in his instruments from looking at photographs, this instrument had an immediate appeal. That first sighting was in 1982, when I was twenty-one. You can see a picture of me looking at the spike on my ‘About’ page. This was one of the many instruments I measured whilst working in Germany, and it has become one of my favourite cello models. […]