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The W. E. Hill & Sons workshop is located in the historic coach house and stables of Burgh House from 1704 in London Hampstead. Under the direction of Robert Brewer Young and Stefan-Peter Greiner , violins modelled after Stradivari - including the Messiah of 1716 - notable Bergonzis, and the work of Guarneri del Gesu are being made as part of ...
William Ebsworth Hill (1817–1895) was a London violin maker and founder of the firm W. E. Hill & Sons. The son of the violin maker Henry Lockey Hill , he came from a long tradition of violin makers, going back to his great-grandfather Joseph Hill .
Joseph Hill (1715–1784) was a well-known violin maker working in London. He apprenticed in the workshop of Peter Wamsley and produced fine violins, typically following the style of the Amatis . He was the first of many great London-based makers in the Hill family, including the firm W. E. Hill & Sons .
Tubbs first started making bows for William Ebsworth Hill around 1860 and continued that relationship until 1870. His bows made for W. E. Hill & Sons are stamped W E Hill and are sometimes double stamped. In the 1870s Tubbs settled on his own opening a shop at 94 Wardour Street. The early bows from this period were branded "J. TUBBS."
After Vuillaume's death in 1875, the violin became the property of his two daughters and then of his son-in-law, the violinist Alard. After Alard's death in 1888, his heirs sold the 'Messiah' in 1890 to W.E. Hill and Sons on behalf of a Mr. R. Crawford of Edinburgh for 2,600 British pounds, at that time the largest sum ever paid for a violin.
Ysaye, by his son Antoine. England: W.E.Hill and Sons, 1980. Sleeve notes from CD Carlton Classics, Ysaye: Six Sonatas for Violin Solo, Ruggiero Ricci. Notes by Bill & Gill Newman. Barati, Kristof Ysaÿe: Sonatas for Solo Violin Brillian Classics, 2013
President Trump is leaning on Steve Witkoff, a longtime friend and real estate investor, to facilitate key aspects of his foreign policy, including high-profile ceasefire talks in Gaza and ...
This is the standard seven-string tuning with the low B string raised to D and lower E string dropped to D. The Drop C variation of this tuning (C-C-G-C-F-A-D) was used by James Hetfield on an ESP 7-String Guitar when Metallica were recording the song "Some Kind Of Monster" from the album St. Anger. Drop A 7-string tuning – A'-E-A-d-g-b-e'