Can you help us find instruments?
Can we help you find your instrument?
Our foundation is interested in buying instruments that can be restored and used for the performance of Renaissance, Baroque and Classical music. These include violas da gamba, violas d'amore, violins, violas, violoncellos, basses, harpsichords, organs, lutes etc. built before 1800 or modern replicas for the use of our students. We would be thankful for any information about instruments on sale, either privately, at auctions or from dealers.
We wish to buy the following at this moment:
1. Baryton
2. Violas da gamba built before 1780
3. Violas da gamba built between 1780 and today
4. Violas da gamba, contemporary, for students
5. Violins, violas, violoncellos, double basses, violone: preferably built before 1780, but also those of later dates.
6, Keyboard instruments before 1820: preferably harpsichords, but also spinetts, virginals, clavichords, small organs, fortepianos
7. Wind instruments built before 1820 (or modern replicas)
8. Also, musical scores and parts for performance of Renaissance, Baroque and Classical works.
Looking for an instrument?
We often receive information about instruments on sale (about 800-900 per year) that are not of interest to our foundation. If you are looking for a particular instrument, historical or modern, we can put you directly in contact with the owners of these instruments. Please, write us precisely what you are looking for. We would be glad to help you.
Musical instruments on sale at this time:
VIOLA DA GAMBA:
Viola da gamba, English, copy after Barak Norman, London, 1699
VIOLIN:
Violin, 18th C. Tyrol
Baroque violin, 18th Century Tyrol
Baroque violin, 18th C. German
Baroque violin, Mittenwald, 18th C.
Baroque violin, Germany, 18th C.
Baroque violin by Jan Udalricus Eberle, Prague, 1758
VIOLONCELLO:
Violoncello after Montagnana, Turin, ca. !830, School of Pacherel (Certificate: Hill)