Violas

Plato

Plato is among my Greek themed instruments paying homage to the Greek sense of balance and form visually and audibly — which I am sure existed in their lost instruments as well. This instrument is also "balanced" in playability being small, 15 and 1/4 inches and having the heart shape at the base creating a niche for the neck whereby the player can pose the instrument on both collar bones for security and ease of playing without a shoulder rest.

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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