Lauren's Gear
Last updated: 2021 June 25
Bows:
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Stravari Pernambuco VPO-W/S
(http://stravari.com/bows-cello/)
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CodaBow Classic Professional Carbon fiber
(this model is no longer manufactured - website anyway https://www.codabow.com/)
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I also have two other ‘back up’ octagonal pernambuco wood bows of unknown manufacture and origin.
Acoustic/Electric Fiddle:
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Unknown Manufacture*
(1786 on label visible from left f-hole, 1895 written visible from the right f-hole)
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Pick Up The World pickup
(https://www.pickup.world/product/violin/)
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D’Addario Helicore Strings
(https://www.daddario.com/products/orchestral/violin/helicore-violin/helicore-violin-string-set-44-scale-medium-tension/)
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Ebony fittings and fingerboard
Electric Fiddle:
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Mark Wood Stingray SVX4 in Candy Apple Red
(http://www.woodviolins.com/stingray/)
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Thomastik-Infeld Spirit! Strings
(https://www.thomastik-infeld.com/en/products/orchestral-strings/violin/spirit)
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Ebony fittings and fingerboard
Acoustic Classical Violin:
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Kallo Bartok (2007)
(https://www.stringworks.com/collections/professional-violins/products/kallo-bartok-violin)
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Boxwood fittings
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Ebony Fingerboard
Amp for Street Performance:
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Danelectro HoneyTone Mini Amp
(https://danelectro.com/accessories/honeytone-mini-amp/)
Amp for Stage Performance
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Marshall AS50D
(https://marshall.com/marshall-amps/products/amps/acoustic/as50d)
Rosin:
* The label inside of the fiddle reads:
COPY OF
Antonius Stradiuarius
Made in Germany 1786
Anyone who understands violin manufacture knows that there are hundreds of thousands (perhaps even millions) of violins around the world bearing such a mark. The elder luthier who repaired this instrument in 2014 told me that it is probably a copy of several iterations of a copy of the Stradivari design.
I honestly have no idea where the violin was made; common sense tells me that it was made for English-speaking markets, since the label is WRITTEN IN ENGLISH. Curiously, it was made in Germany … but where? The origin of my fiddle remains a mystery; though it has a beautiful tone for the purpose of my fiddling skills and I love it dearly.
It is possible that the violin was made in either Mittenwald or Markneukirchen. See the following links for more information:
Mittenwald:
Markneukirchen:
https://www.corilon.com/us/library/towns-and-regions/markneukirchen-violin-making-in-german-cremona
My emailed inquiry to Corilon received the following response:
“copy of” labeled instruments are usually Saxony or Bubenreuth manufactured, no named, and of basic quality and value
Bubenreuth makers were highly active from 1920 through about the mid-1970s, which is too late a time frame, if the 1895 figure written inside the fiddle is to be believed.