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The violins listed on this page represents some of the finest currently available in South Africa, ranging from advanced and intermediate upgrades to professional and concert quality solo instruments. Each instrument is in impeccable condition and set up tonally to very highest level, aiming to achieve ease of response, focus, projection and power, putting at the player’s disposal a rich palette of colour gradations throughout the register.

Johan Grobbelaar, who is a former professional violinist, personally sets up each violin, testing its response and making required adjustments to achieve the highest tonal standard.

The violins are listed from the finest at the top to the intermediate instruments further down. Child violins are listed separately below. And further down are listed any restorable violins which may be available, and which are sold ‘as is’.

In the listing below click on the link to see a page dedicated to the particular instrument, complete with expert and honest commentary, technical information, but above all, superb high resolution photos allowing you to observe the minutest details of the violin, as if you have it in your hand. Try it. You’ll love it !

1235 Unknown Origin. Prob. Italian, c. 1770.
1120 Unknown Origin. Circa 2010
1052 Luigi MARUCCHI. George, SA. 2004
1305 Copy of Andrea Amati. C 1900
1320 Copy of Stradivari. Hungary, 2025
1321 Copy of G. B. Guadagnini. Hungary, 2023
1322 Copy of J. B. Vuillaume. Hungary, 2025
1323 Copy of J. B. Vuillaume. Hungary, 2025
1324 Copy of Stradivari. Hungary, 2024
1270 French. Unlabelled, circa 1910
1300 Jacobus VAN SOELEN. Cape Town, 2010
1310 Giuseppe Carlo fratelli Fiscer, Milan, c. 1760
1236 James HARDIE, Edinburgh, 1863
1249 Jacobus VAN SOELEN.Cape Town, 2003.
1298 Copy of Stradivari. Circa 1980
1263 German copy of Bergonzi.Circa 1910
1307 Czech copy of Stradivari. Circa 1970
1255 French copy of Duiffoprugcar. Circa 1850
1199 German copy of Amati, by Klier. Circa 1920
1296 Czech copy of Stradivari. Circa 1975
1299 Unlabelled. probably Dutch. Ex Wegelin, c. 1920
1208 French. Possibly JTL. Circa 1890
1221 Made for J J van de Geest. 1970
1302 German copy of Stradivari. Circa 1930
1301 German copy of Stradivari. Circa 1930
1048 German 'Stainer' copy, with Baroque neck. C. 1920
1273 Stentor Harlequin Blue. Circa 2010

    CHILD VIOLINS
0749 3/4-size violin. Chinese origin, 2011
1254 3/4-size violin. German, Circa 1935
1087 3/4-size violin of Unknown Origin C. 1920
1110 1/2-size violin of Unknown Origin C. 1920
1196 1/2-size violin outfit. Stentor 1. C. 2016
1197 1/10-size violin outfit. Stentor 1. C. 2016

    RESTORABLE VIOLINS, SOLD 'AS IS'
1256 Atze Sijtsma. Harlingen, 1958
1257 Labelled Gobetti. Circa 1830 or earlier

    VIOLIN CASES, SHOULDER RESTS & ACCESSORIES
0753 Shoulder Rests (4/4 (3/4) & 1/2 size). R 725
 
 
 


 
 
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