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Eastman Strings offers an assortment of different cello models for beginner, advanced, and master musicians.
All questions regarding pricing and availability should be directed toward your local Eastman Strings certified dealer.
In addition to the models listed below, Eastman Strings also provides some of our dealers with privately labeled instruments. We stand behind all our instruments with a lifetime warranty.
Beginner Cellos
Samuel Eastman Series
The Samuel Eastman series of instruments is the perfect match for beginning players or players on a budget. These instruments provide remarkable sound, visual beauty, sturdiness, playability, and affordability—basically, all of the most important points when considering an instrument for a young player without a lot of experience. It is our philosophy that possibly the most important instrument a musician will ever play is the first one, because it is essential that the experience is both enjoyable and rewarding. These instruments provide the quality and affordability to ensure that players will get the right start.
Advanced Cellos
Andreas Eastman Series
In the Andreas Eastman master workshop, we are focussed on a small number of very important things:
• Quality tonewoods
• Outstanding hand-craftsmanship
• Artistic traditional varnishes
It’s a short list, but it includes all of the factors important in ensuring that our instruments are the best sounding and most beautiful, responsive, reliable step-up instruments available. Our master workshop has no power tools; our luthiers use the techniques and tools of European workshops of the 19th century—because some things just can’t be improved.
Step-up models from the Ivan Dunov workshop in Romania. Expert hand-craftsmanship ensures the beautiful appearance, responsive playability, and outstanding tone of these instruments. From the careful detailing of the scrolls and the custom graduations of tops and backs, to the hand-applied spirit varnish, these instruments bring together the best of traditional European materials and craftsmanship.
Albert Nebel violins, violas, and cellos provide famous German quality at a modest price. These instruments are crafted from aged European tonewoods and are varnished by hand in the United States.
The Rudoulf Doetsch instruments are made in a time-honored workshop-method tradition by a collaboration of family workshops in Erlangen, Germany. Necks, scrolls, ribs, tops, and backs are each carved separately and are then assembled into instruments by a master luthier. They are then sent to the United States where Mr. William Weaver and his assistants remove the tops to make internal tonal adjustments, check and correct neck size and graduation, replace the bass bars, and hand-varnish each one.
Master Cellos
Ling Wang Series
Instruments from the Ling Wang workshop, located in a small section of our Beijing facility, receive the special attention of our most experienced and gifted master luthiers. These luthiers focus their expertise and experience on the creation of three professional models. In addition to the meticulously applied oil varnish (see models 905 and 906), the Ling Wang models employ the latest advances in the technique of plate tuning, a method that helps makers fine-tune the graduations of the top and back plates to get the best possible sound from each unique piece of wood. Our research into old master instruments, texts, and technical experiments, come together in the creation of some of the finest workshop instruments available today.
The Eastman Strings Beijing workshop relies on collaboration among gifted specialists to achieve our widely respected quality. Each smaller workshop within our larger workshop setting has some distinguishing characteristics which can be seen in the instruments it produces. In fact, some of our instruments are collaborations between luthiers halfway around the world from each other! The Leonardo Vecchio instruments are an example of this team approach. After these instruments are carved and assembled by our top Beijing luthiers, they are shipped to our US workshop where final adjustments are made and a rich, amber oil varnish is applied. The result is a professional model that has astonished professional players and teachers with its superb tone, responsiveness, and appearance.
We create only a very small number of Sebastian Künchen instruments each year. These instruments originate in our master workshop in Beijing and are completed in the United States by a master luthier. Sebastian Künchen instruments make a truly personal tonal and visual statement.
Raúl Emiliani concert violins, violas, and cellos are our top-of-the-line instruments. They originate in our master workshop in Beijing. Then they are shipped to the United States where a master luthier applies a translucent amber varnish. The influence of the great Golden Age Italian makers can be seen in the slightly antiqued appearance and detailed craftsmanship of these instruments. Tonally, these instruments are colorful, rich, and with a very sweet sound.
In Memoriam: Raúl Emiliani was an Italian born violinist, composer, and arranger. His work as a pedagogic contributed to the formation of numerous fine instrumentalist. Professor Emiliani died in 1989.
The Wilhelm Klier instruments are crafted in Germany using a time-honored workshop-method tradition. These high-end instruments are made of older wood to achieve a warmer sound. They are highly flamed and varnished with a deep coloration to give an exciting, old-fashioned look. The sound is described as rounder than a new instrument, almost as if it already had been broken in. These instruments are an excellent upgrade for the advanced musician.
Frederich Wyss cellos are the pinnacle of European luthiery tradition. The finest available European tonewoods are meticulously crafted by makers working in the tradition established in Germany centuries ago. Tonally adjusted and hand-varnished by master luthiers in the United States, these instruments are nothing less than true professional models, worthy of the conservatory, studio, or the concert stage. Their rich, mature sonority penetrates to the furthest reaches of the concert hall.
Rainer Leonhardt is heir to a respected family master workshop reaching back for generations. Located in the gorgeous medieval town of Mittenwald, with the Isar river visible through the workshop windows on one side, ancient millstreams full of trout on the other, and the majestic Bavarian Alps overlooking all, this workshop produces a small number of instruments in the great German tradition. Mr. Leonhardt attended the violin making school in Mittenwald, completed his journeymanship in several well-known German workshops, and was admitted as a Master Violinmaker in 1990. Since that time, he has worked in the family workshop, of which he is now the leader. Mr. Leonhardt has won numerous awards for tone and craftsmanship, and is currently on the examination board for aspirants to the title of Master Violinmaker in Germany.