Andrew Metaxas Strings in Brunswick, Victoria | Musical instrument store

Andrew Metaxas Strings

Locality: Brunswick, Victoria

Phone: +64 210 866 3763

Address: 12 Station Road Heathcote Valley, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand 3057 Brunswick, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.andrewmetaxasstrings.com

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19.01.2022 Viola number 7 is for now for sale and may be viewed/tried at Tempest Music!!

17.01.2022 Viola number 7, Gaius aka Billy. Only a few days old and playing strongly and sweetly. This viola has a 15 3/4" body and is a scaled-up version of a William Forster instrument thought to have been made around 1810. Thank you to Peter Exton for letting me take the pattern from his late father's viola.

15.01.2022 Merry Christmas to all of you and thanks for being interested in my page. May you all have a joyful and safe festive season!!!

14.01.2022 My first viola, "Brutus", is available for viewing, trial and sale from Violin Place - James Robinson in Chatswood on Sydney's Lower North Shore. It is mid-scale instrument, at 16 1/4" in the body, really well balanced in all registers and handsomely antiqued. Sale price includes a viola case. http://andrewmetaxasstrings.com/violas-for-sale/brutus/

03.01.2022 Busy this year-performing and teaching AND getting better health-wise. Became hospital worthy end of 2015 and had to make some swift changes to manage and improve my health- done, and medics very pleased with progress to date but still more to do. On the Bench;... Slightly enlarged copy of a very nice" William Forster III" originally 15 1/8"(my opinion and yet TBC) formerly in the hands of my Composition Professor at UWA, John Exton. Photographs coming soon when the Scroll is finished! I did own a beautiful Richard Duke Anno 1779 15 1/8"and have seen/played a couple Benjamin Banks from that amazing period. The English makers of the late George III era and into the Regecy (Duke, Banks, Forster, Fendt et al) represented a new "high-water-mark" but never surpassing much earlier achievements by Daniel Parker and Barak Norman et al. It's curious that we do not continue to learn the lessons of history. As the instruments of the the C18th. illustrate, even though superior instruments were being made in England in the early C18th. that bore the mark of Brescia and Cremona, the tide of Stainer style instruments swept all before it. Until the Panormo family made its way to England, the previous knowledge from Italy was all but ignored and largely forgotten. My making follows my admiration of the early Brescian viola makers in achieving depth, richness and projection while being ergonomically friendly! A viola does not have to be huge to produce a satisfying tone in all registers!! Am also preparing a talk/paper for the upcoming ANZVC in Gosford NSW in the wake of last year's very beneficial conference covering issues MAYBE regarding ergonomics in designing and/or setting up and/or ?! - TBA!! Thanks for looking in and more to come soon!! Andrew

01.01.2022 My second viola, "Titus" (a 1785 Guadagnini copy), is available for viewing, trial and sale at Theo's Music, West Leederville, Perth.