Andreas Preuss violin, 2017, Tokyo, Japan | Metzler Violins

brilliant, sweet, resonant

About the Maker

Andreas Preuss is a contemporary German-born luthier who went to Tokyo as a teenager to study to be a luthier under Soroku Murata. Preuss has since settled in Tokyo. He has great facility in making antiqued as well as straight-varnished instruments, with his copy of Paganini’s Gaurneri “del Gesù” as an example of the former. When antiquing his instruments, Preuss embraces natural methods of staining the wood. “This way, when my instruments get additional wear, it just looks natural,” he explains. Preuss has received a Gold Medal for viola at the Violin: Soul & Shape competition in Moscow.

About the Instrument

[forthcoming]

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