The instruments we have in our collection are always changing. We always carry a good range of instruments between $3,000 and $7,000 and above. To find out what we currently have in stock in your price range, please fill out the Contact Form and we will be able to advise you of the instruments that would best suit your needs. You may also like to call us on 07-38446090 to discuss your personal needs.
Professional, European and Antique Instruments
$5,000 to $15,000 Instruments
- Schönfelder violin
- Priestnall violin
- Old German early 1800’s violin
- Colin-Mezin violin 1821
- Julian Emery Violin
- 1 beautiful french violin
- Hawkes violin 1889
- Herman Dölling violin early 1900’s
- Dieudonne violin
- Herman Dölling violin 1920’s
- Violin by Meisel around mid 1800’s
- Pietro Giorgianni violin
- Salvatore Lombardi violin and viola
- Giuseppe Ziardo violin and viola
- Old German viola
- Salvatore Lombardi Cello
- Ziardo Cello
- Jay Haide Cello
- Franz Paulus Cello
- Stradivarius copy Cello
15,000+ Instruments
- Olaf Grawert Violin 2021
- Helge Grawert Viola 2001
- Helge Grawert Cello 1990’s
- Salomon Cello 1750’s
- Italian violin by Maurizi 1920’s
- Nurnberg violin Late 1700′
- Klotz violin Late 1700’s
Browse Professional, European and Antique Instruments
Instruments
AUD $ 7.200.00
Instruments
AUD $ 5.497.00
Instruments
AUD $ 6.957.00
Antique
Instruments
AUD $ 10.000.00
Antique
Instruments
AUD $ 12.500.00
Antique
Instruments
AUD $ 22.000.00
New
Instruments
AUD $ 15.000.00
Why Buy from Olaf Grawert Violin Studio?
- You will always talk to a real violin Expert (one who could make you an instrument or restore one if you ask, and not just a violin player)
- You get better quality, because I pay more attention to every little detail that is important to string players when choosing instruments for the shop.
- Being a violin maker as well as player allowed me to carefully choose a small selection of the best Instruments available, this means that the hardest part of your job of finding good quality is done for you.
- Most importantly I choose the instruments for sound. They need to have a rich carrying clear tone. Of course instruments vary in tonal character.. there is always a good number of different instruments you can choose from
- Every instrument in the shop has been carefully checked for quality materials and workmanship.
- All Instruments in stock are set up to a professional level. I firmly believe that all musicians, students and professionals alike should have access to instruments set up to the highest standard. Playing an instrument is difficult enough without a bad set up.
- At Olaf Grawert Violin Studio we make sure that absolutely every instrument that is sold is fully set up and carefully checked before it leaves the shop. I often come across Instruments sold through shops that still need to have up to $385 of work done just to be playable!! That is a risk just not worth taking. Our instruments may cost slightly more than at other music shops, but you get hundreds of dollars extra value and the assurance that each instrument has been set up, played and fully inspected by a fully trained violinmaker. Read my full story here.
- I am always researching all instruments that are available. So when you buy an instrument with us, you will always find top quality and sounding instruments available in it’s price class.
- I make sure that the pegs are easy to turn, that the fingerboard has the exact right shape, that the playing action is right, so the instrument is easy to play and that the sound is of good quality.
- I only stock instruments that I can personally recommend as being of good quality.
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Olaf Grawert Set up
Each instrument has been set up like a top quality professional instrument:
- Fingerboard has been planed to a professional standard. This means that you will have a fingerboard that has the same shape as that of most instruments that you will hear in concert halls around the world. This gives you a clear tone.
- You get the best sound possible, because each instrument is fitted with a professional quality French or German bridge crafted by a master violin maker with specialized acoustic knowledge to make the instrument sound the best that it can.
- Fit a professional quality soundpost to really bring out the rich tonal qualities. There is a reason that in many languages the soundpost is called the “Soul”. It takes a master to fit and move the soundpost into the right position to really make the instrument sing.
- I always fit the Instruments with great quality strings for that rich sound.
- Each peg is carefully refitted to make sure that it is very easy to tune the instrument using the pegs.
- The tailpiece is checked and refitted to make sure it is in the best acoustical position
- I check and recheck the string height and spacing to make sure it is absolutely perfect. It is only easy to play the violin when the string height is absolutely right.
- I make sure that everything about the bow works well
- I always play each instrument and adjust it until I’m so happy with it that I want to keep the violin myself. I always try out the instruments far too long, because they are so much fun to play. This way you can be sure that when your instrument leaves my workshop, everything about it is perfect.
- I always offer excellent after sale support & service
Why Buy from Olaf Grawert Violin Studio?
- You will always talk to a real violin Expert (one who could make you an instrument or restore one if you ask, and not just a violin player)
- You get better quality, because I pay more attention to every little detail that is important to string players when choosing instruments for the shop.
- Being a violin maker as well as player allowed me to carefully choose a small selection of the best Instruments available, this means that the hardest part of your job of finding good quality is done for you.
- Most importantly I choose the instruments for sound. They need to have a rich carrying clear tone. Of course instruments vary in tonal character.. there is always a good number of different instruments you can choose from
- Every instrument in the shop has been carefully checked for quality materials and workmanship.
- All Instruments in stock are set up to a professional level. I firmly believe that all musicians, students and professionals alike should have access to instruments set up to the highest standard. Playing an instrument is difficult enough without a bad set up.
- At Olaf Grawert Violin Studio we make sure that absolutely every instrument that is sold is fully set up and carefully checked before it leaves the shop. I often come across Instruments sold through shops that still need to have up to $385 of work done just to be playable!! That is a risk just not worth taking. Our instruments may cost slightly more than at other music shops, but you get hundreds of dollars extra value and the assurance that each instrument has been set up, played and fully inspected by a fully trained violinmaker. Read my full story here.
- I am always researching all instruments that are available. So when you buy and instrument with us, you will always find top quality and sounding instruments available in it’s price class.
- I make sure that the pegs are easy to turn, that the fingerboard has the exact right shape, that the playing action is right, so the instrument is easy to play and that the sound is of good quality.
- I only stock instruments that I can personally recommend as being of good quality.
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