Desmond Timms Has Been Building Fine Violin Cases for Over a Quarter of a Century
As he approaches retirement, Timms is acutely aware that he is indeed “the trustee” of a long tradition of English case making.
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Gewa’s Air Luthier Cases Were Designed in Collaboration With Violin Makers
Gewa's Air Luthier cases. designed in collaboration with violin makers, are made in Germany and available only through luthiers.
Function or Fashion: Buying a Violin Case Under $500
By Greg Olwell Violins have never been safer than they are right now. Manufacturers employ an abundance of luxurious materials to swaddle your beloved violi... Read More...
How to Buy a Violin or Viola Case
By Greg Cahill What’s the best violin or viola case? The answer is, well, complicated. Cases come in a variety of shapes and sizes and prices. There are hun... Read More...
Eastman Debuts Electro Acoustic Series, Cello Cases, & Bass Extensions at NAMM 2020
Eastman Strings showed its new Electro Acoustic series at NAMM 2020, available as an option in any Eastman Step Up model for a $200 upcharge. The pickup is in ... Read More...
BAM Cases Releases a Tracking App for Musical Instruments
By Stephanie Powell BAM Cases has released Gigs by BAM, an app for smartphones that allows users to track the location of their musical instruments at all t... Read More...
Horrifying Photos of Airline-Damaged Viola da Gamba & How to Protect Your Instrument While Traveling
It's every musician's worst travel nightmare: that a valuable instrument will be damaged or lost in transit.
That nightmare came true in early January for My... Read More...
BAM Cases’ Katja Goetz on Balancing Fashion & Function
By Cristina Schreil
It began with purple
Katja Goetz, who took over BAM in 2011 with her husband Robert, explains that founders Laurence and Philippe de Trogo... Read More...
W.E. Hill & Sons: The Golden Period of Violin Cases
By Glenn P. Wood
It could be argued that the golden-period violin cases were made by Stradivari but an equally powerful argument could be made for those crea... Read More...
Inside the ‘Milan’ Strad Violin Case Discovery
Text and images by Dimitri Musafia The ‘Milan’ Stradivari case
The many similarities with another example exhibited at the Chi Mei Museum in Taiwan provi... Read More...