Violas

Papillon

A direct descendant of da Salo’s viola is the Papillon. A tiny viola (14 ½ inches), this instrument was made for a petite violist who is no longer in pain and who is now in possession of tone impossible to get with the modern violin shaped instrument.

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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