David Wiebe cello #100, Woodstock NY, 2005 | Metzler Violins

About the Maker

I was born in Beatrice, Nebraska. My father’s family business was a lumberyard, started by my great grandfather. As a young boy, I grew up playing in the J. G. Wiebe Lumberyard and being around the fresh smell of lumber.

I studied Double Bass performance at the University of Missouri, Columbia, which I left in 1970 to study violinmaking in Mittenwald, Germany.

I studied at the Staatliche Fachschule für Geigenbau with master luthier, Alois Hornsteiner.

After school, I opened a very small shop in my hometown of Beatrice where I made around 15 new instruments, including starting a bass.

After working in Beatrice for three years, I moved David City, Nebraska to work out of my home.

In 2002, I moved to Woodstock and a year later we broke ground to build an addition to the house in Woodstock, which now contains the entire workshop and wood storage.