Duane Brewer 2025 violin, Guarneri model, Walla Walla, Washington | Metzler Violins

full, resonant, sweet

About the Instrument
This violin has a powerful lower register that opens up to a sweet and full treble. The varnish is an even light apricot over a golden ground with a curly grain across the single-piece back. Similar flames run along the ribs, with the neck and scroll of a somewhat plainer wood. The scroll has a lovely black purfling along its edges, which stands out nicely against the light varnish.

Interior label reads: “Duane Eugene Brewer / Walla Walla WA. Anno 2025
Length: 356 mm
Upper Bouts: 165 mm
Middle: 112 mm
Lower Bouts: 204 mm

About the Maker
Duane Brewer (1961- ) is a contemporary luthier who was born in Palm Springs, California and is based in Walla Walla, Washington. Brewer was one of the first students to enroll in the historic North Bennet Street School in Boston, Massachusetts’ violin making and repair program in the mid-1980s. For six years, Brewer worked with Paul Schuback at Schuback Violin Shop, Inc. in the Pacific Northwest. Brewer then relocated to San Antonio, Texas where he worked at Terra Nova Violins atelier for three years. He now works out of Hartl's Bow Shop in Walla Walla where continues his work of crafting fine violins under his own label.