Violins available in 4/4, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 sizes.
Violas available in sizes 12", 13", 14", 15", 15.5", 16", 16.5".
Outfits available in all sizes except 1/8 violin.
All prices INCLUDE shipping.

Slightly flamed back and sides. School instruments with black adjusters and ebony chinrests (Dresden model). This instrument features a well-dyed French red varnish, French style pegs, a ribbed endpin, Aubert bridge and Synthacore (from the German firm, Pyramid) strings. Stradivari pattern. (Made in the Czech Republic with German materials).

Tartini Violin: $331.00
Tartini Violin Outfit (includes violin; A. Saldo brazilwood bow/round, model 1111, with half/nickel mounted ebony frog, pearl slide and pearl eye, one-piece button; shaped case; rosin): $519.00

Tartini Viola (12", 13", 14"): $331.00
Tartini Viola (15", 15.5", 16", 16.5"): $365.00
Tartini Viola Outfit: $605.00

*Wittner 'Ultra' tailpiece and Thomastik Dominant strings available for addtional $12.00
*Wittner 'Ultra' tailpiece (only) available for additional $3.00

TARTINI Models > SPOHR Models

The Italian violinist, composer and teacher, GIUSEPPE TARTINI (1692-1770), made an important contribution to the virtuoso violin concerto and solo repertoire. He led a life of abandon as a student of law in Padua, Italy. After a secret marriage, he had to hide in a monastery in Assisi, Italy, where he studied composition.

Tartini insisted all his pupils learn Corelli's Op. 5 sonatas before continuing study of anything else. He was a self-taught genius who in 1728 founded the most famous school of its time for violinists called the PADUAN SCHOOL. Tartini taught the same 10 students every day (teaching up to 10 hours a day!) and taught over 70 students from around Europe.

Tartini's "Art of Bowing" (L'arte del arco) is a set of 38 variations on a theme by Corelli that develops a player's technical ability. Tartini was very influential in the history of violin playing: he used vibrato (then known as "tremolo") as an ornamental effect and varied its speed; he perfected a special bowing known as "messa di voce" - a crescendo and decrescendo in a single stroke; he discovered the so-called "resultant tone"; he used and influenced other to use thicker violin strings; and he advocated the use of a lighter bow.