Violas

Octopus

Among all the violas pictured, the Octopus was made with only a few players in mind. The body length is just under 20 inches! Of course the tone is big, fat and juicy. I have shaved off every bit of wood and string length I could to make this viola playable in the horizontal position, but still only NBA size hands and arms should attempt playing the Octopus.

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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