Louise is extremely lucky to have an old instrument thought to be made in Paris c.1750 previously belonging to Cecil Aronowitz and Eric Rycroft. Louise has written an article below about Cecil and the story of the viola. In addition, she plays on an 1890 Sartory viola bow weighing 66 grams, a Noel Burke, a 1900 Vctr Fetique and Andres Grützmacher baroque bow. Louise has recently decided to commission Antoine to make an exact replica of her Cecil Aronowitz viola and will sell her other Antoine viola in due course. Louise has recently visited Antoine’s workshop in Newark where she spent a day amazed by the process of measuring, photographing, scanning and studying that took place. She is incredibly excited to be part of this process with Antoine.
