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some of MY LATEST INSTRUMENTS

I usually have 3 or 4 instruments available, 

here is my latest.......   


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2022 "geo. kloz" march 2022

2021 17" Viola "bronze medalist"

Awarded Bronze for Tone

by Southern Violin Association makers' competition Atlanta, GA 2021

Neck length 120mm

Stop length 220mm

Vibrating String length 365

After length 87mm

Romanian maple back and sides

Fine grain Romanian Spruce top 

Old World Varnish (Spain)

Boxwood fittings

Dominant Strings

An interesting scroll

Finest ebony fingerboard

2020 Violin

Fill size violin, Romanian Spruce top

Romanian maple back and sides

Awarded Certificate of Merit for Tone 2021 Southern Violin Association makers' competition

Boxwood fittings

Eva Parrazi Gold strings

Old World Varnish system (Spain)

2019

Strad based on Messiah

Completed 2016 but revarnished 2019

Completed 2016 but revarnished 2019

A strad made by David Chandler Burnsville NC violin maker

An oil varnish applied by fingertips in a rich red-brown.  This is my finest instrument made to date.   It projects well and has a very clear and focused tone.  Even across the strings.  This is ready for an advancing to professional level player that doesn't want to spend $20,000 and up for an Italian of equal quality.


It is fitted with Eva Parazzi Gold strings and fine tune pegs (no necessity of fine tuners)

Completed 2016 but revarnished 2019

Completed 2016 but revarnished 2019

Completed 2016 but revarnished 2019

This violin was placed in a Dallas violin shop about 2017 and returned to me with the fingerboard off.  I was not happy with the 2016 varnish, so it was stripped and revarnished.  This is the darkest varnish tone I've ever done, and I've found it rather pleasant to look at.  It looks much older, although without  the chips and scratches normally associated with an antiqued instrument.


Please note the chinrest and tailpiece are custom made.  Chinrest with clamps weighs 37 grams and tailpiece 9grams.  Typical over the tailpiece chinrest weighs at least 60grams, and tailpiece about 13 grams.

FIVE STRING "Butternut"

STRAD DESIGN

STRAD DESIGN

STRAD DESIGN

Completed summer of 2019.

Based on Stradivari's "The Messiah" it is a standard length, but the middle and lower bouts are proportionately larger by about 4 and 8mm respectively.

PLAYABILITY

STRAD DESIGN

STRAD DESIGN

The neck at the nut is expanded slightly to allow comfortable play of the violin, with near standard spacing.  Great response, even tone across the strings.

FINISH

STRAD DESIGN

FITTINGS

The finish is a carmel colored brown oil varnish of great clarity and  highest quality, with some shading to give it just enough character to intimate that it does indeed have a soul.

FITTINGS

DIMENSIONS

FITTINGS

Side view 5 string violin.

Currently fitted with a composite 5 string tailpiece with fine adjusters, and boxwood pegs.

DIMENSIONS

DIMENSIONS

DIMENSIONS

 

  • 356mm back length
  • Upper bout 167mm
  • Middle bout 114mm
  • Lower bout 214mm
  • Ribs 31 to 33mm
  • Neck width at nut 25.5mm
  • Bridge is 45mm 


SOUND

DIMENSIONS

DIMENSIONS

Sonorous, slightly deeper in timber, more like a small viola,  than a standard Stradivari because of oversized lower bout.  Excellence response and projection with evenness across all strings, even the lower C string.  Bridge is marked for 4 string play, and in that setup, it is a remarkably strong and bold tone.

Details on my violins

On approval

On approval

On approval

With a deposit, I can ship a violin to you on approval for several weeks. 

Value

On approval

On approval

I'll always give you your purchase price for trade-in as long as it is for an instrument of equal or greater value.  Condition adjustments may apply.   I also will correct any structural issues that may come up on my instruments.

Commission

Commission

Commission

For a deposit, I will make an instrument to your dimensions and instructions.  Size of deposit depends on how unusual the instrument.

Trade-ins

Commission

Commission

Trade-ins considered..

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Chandler Violin Maker

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