Violas

Nautilus

A highly flamed one-piece back, spruce top, 16 ½ inch body length describes the physical viola. Violists able to play this large an instrument will be rewarded with a tone of many perspectives influenced by the high arching in both the top and back.

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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