Cellos

The Crane

"The Crane" Cello is owned and played by the world-wide (most recently in Japan) free-lance cellist, Joel Becktell. Joel’s performance on the Crane cello is featured in the video by Colores on the home page of this website.

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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