In this video, Ian McWilliams, an instrument maker working just outside Berlin, asks three cellists (Rolando Fernandez, Martina Biondi, Mon-Puo Lee) to play a cello that he finished making in early 2020 to get a sense of its potential. They play three different pieces of music with three different bows. 

For more examples of McWilliams’s work, visit www.crawfordinstruments.org

Read: Making Matters: a luthier’s photographic studio

Read: VSA honours instrument and bow makers in biennial competition

Read: Players favour new violins over old in largest ever blind testing experiment

Watch: Making a cello from carbon

Watch: Amateur luthier’s decade-long project to make violins for his 10 grandchildren

 

 

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