Warren Ellison Violin & Viola da Gamba Maker

Baroque details

Set up parts for a Baroque cello
Pearwood pegs and endpin, hard maple fingerboard

Baroque viola fingerboard & tailpiece.
Fingerboard design after
Brothers Amati viola 1592

shorter two octave fingerboard	Wider tailpiece (English style)
cello end button, lightweight tailpiece	laminated fingerboard ,baroque bridge

Baroque Conversion of an Andreas Mayr Cello
                                                            detail of hand turned blackwood pegs
                                                                antique ivory nut, & fingerboard inlay

detail of fingerboard inlay
                                                                       detail of decorated tailpiece and baroque end button

Maple border, Boxwood leaves and Maple purfling stems custom fingerboard inlay

violas da gamba

37.5 cm string length treble / 54 cm string length tenor

viola da gamba

Details of a decorated Colichon model 7 string bass viol. This gamba has a 69 centimeter string length, double purfling corner designs, Parisian motif carving, and African Blackwood scalloped pegs. Built in 2009