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German violin maker Walter Mahr comes from a long line of instrument makers. From a young age he showed talent as an instrument builder and was formally educated, graduating from violin making school in 1983 with top honors. His family's connections to old instrument makers help him find high quality materials. His instruments are made of fine tone wood, carefully aged and seasoned for 20 to 100 years. Finely crafted to meticulous standards, his instruments are traditionally hand finished with oil or spirit based varnish. Mahr’s violins will be the treasured antiques of the future. The Viola D' Amore (The Fiddle Of Love) is best described as having a viol-like body of somewhat varying shape, fretless, held and bowed like a violin, often with "flame shaped" soundholes, and a large pegbox to accommodate the pegs for the extra sympathetic strings which run under the neck like those of a Hardanger fiddle. It was most popular in the early 18th century. It has six playing strings tuned ADAF#AD, but scordatura was common (altering the open tuning for specific musical purposes). Of course period music sounds wonderful on the Viola D' Amore, but its rich tone and ringing sympathetic strings would be great to play many other styles of music. We offer fine reproductions of antique Viola d'Amores, based on traditional models, with a lightly flamed maple back and sides, spruce soundboard, "imitation old" spirit varnish, with ebony fittings.
$3,500.00
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