AS02/ 22 Handmade Violin by Lionel Karl Hepplewhite. Soundsample
£6,000.00
AS02/ 22 Handmade Violin by Lionel Karl Hepplewhite. The label reads ‘ ‘Violin made by Lionel Karl Hepplewhite, Malvern, Worcestershire, 1983’ and is signed.
Professional players comments: “Warm, mellow singing tone with sweetness on higher range. Beautiful to play, immediately responsive with great character.”
Soundsample
The back, neck and scroll are of well flamed maple with the front of narrow grain spruce. Boxwood pegs and chinrest with ebony tailpiece. Currently fitted with Tonica strings.
Length of back: 36.2cms. String length: 32.5cms. Stop length: 13.3cms.
Lionel Karl Hepplewhite has been making instruments for the music world since the 1950s. In recognition of this, he was given the Tom Jenkins Award for Makers of Bowed Stringed Instruments. Tom Jenkins was an internationally renowned leader of the BBC’s Grand Hotel Orchestra. He was a life-long inspiration to Mr Hepplewhite, who got his first violin when he was 12. Unimpressed with its quality, he decided he would have a go at making his own. He completed his first violin in 1955, aged 19.
His instruments were made using the finest materials and only available by custom ordering, usually many months in advance of delivery. This violin exhibits immaculate craftsmanship and is in excellent condition.
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