Cellos

Chladni

I made this cello in 1976 at the start of my career. It honors the memory of Ernst Chladni who pioneered the study of vibrating string instruments and musical acoustics. The designs on the scroll and the interior are visualizations of vibrating patterns. The instrument can be heard in the Links section.

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Read An American Master Violinmaker at Work, an article from Forbes Magazine about Anne.

Read The Art of Violin Making—A modern luthier crafts her own tradition, an article from Strings Magazine about Anne.

“No modern maker, in my opinion, embodies the essence of the old masters, the vision, the creativity, the instinctive tonal mastery, better than Anne Cole.”

--Joel Becktell