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Ning & Ivanov is the result of violinmaking collaboration between a Chinese Violinmaker and a Russian Violinmaker. I believe this is the first and only available workshop that is working so close together. Russian violinmaking has a long history, earlier that even many European countries. There are some unique styles in the construction of the violin that the violinmakers has retain strictly as Russian style. Here we are happy to showcase these to you. Right now, the 2 violinmakers are residing in Beijing. We have chosen to retain use Russian spruce and maple. The tone is just exceptional, powerful rich clear tone.
Specifications:

  • 100% Handmade, 100% hand oil-varnished.
  • Selected Seasoned Russian Spruce Top, naturally air dried (over 16years).
  • Selected Seasoned Russian  Back, Ribs & Scroll, naturally air dried (over 18 years).
  • Ebony Fingerboard.
  • Hand-carved pegs, tailpiece and chinrest.
  • Genuine Inlaid Purfling.

What’s in the box when I buy this viola?

  • One viola, one viola case & one bow
This item is normally shipped with the Bricks Pilot Case and Cobra Brazil Bow
Below is a gallery of photos of this model that has been sold previously.
#Sold Gallery
If you like to order this viola, you can choose from the latest inventory below:

Latest Inventory

After you have made your choice, just drop me an email and I will guide you for the purchase.


Tone is the best thing about this violin. Those players looking for a unique violin need to look no further. This violin is the result of feedbacks from customers. (Thank you! keep the feedbacks coming.) Made in Strad style. this violin has a warm-bright tone, that is instantly responsive. The good quality European Spruce really makes an outstanding improvement in the tone, giving it an added sophistication to the tone. It is balanced on all 4 strings, an essential especially for players whose needs for tone consistency is great. Age old book match maple is used, guaranteeing consistency in tone. For Pros only.
Specifications:

  • 100% Handmade, 100% hand oil-varnished.
  • Selected European Spruce Top, naturally air dried (over 18 years).
  • Selected Flamed Maple Back, Ribs & Scroll, naturally air dried (over 18 years).
  • Ebony Fingerboard.
  • Hand-carved Ebony pegs, tailpiece and chinrest.
  • Genuine Inlaid Purfling.

What’s in the box when I buy this violin?

  • One violin, one violin case & one bow
This item is normally shipped with the Bricks Pilot Case and Cobra Brazil Bow
Below is a gallery of photos of this model that has been sold previously.
#Sold Gallery
If you like to order this violin, you can choose from the latest inventory below:

Latest Inventory

After you have made your choice, just drop me an email and I will guide you for the purchase.


A powerful, bright, open and balanced tone. This violin has the original Hellier body, slightly bigger than normal violins, giving it an extra resonating power and deeper bass. A beautiful one piece maple is used. This maple has good visibility into the grains. The top spruce is medium grain, and consistent. Powerful projection with a very good response. Suitable as a top instrument, this violin will perform in all occasions. My Pro series best model.
Specifications:

  • 100% Handmade, 100% hand oil-varnished.
  • Selected European Spruce Top, naturally air dried (over 16 years).
  • Selected Flamed Maple Back, Ribs & Scroll, naturally air dried (over 12 years).
  • Ebony Fingerboard.
  • Hand-carved Ebony pegs, tailpiece and chinrest.
  • Genuine Inlaid Purfling.

What’s in the box when I buy this violin?

  • One violin, one violin case & one bow
This item is normally shipped with the Bricks Pilot Case and Cobra Brazil Bow
Below is a gallery of photos of this model that has been sold previously.
#Sold Gallery
If you like to order this violin, you can choose from the latest inventory below:

Latest Inventory

After you have made your choice, just drop me an email and I will guide you for the purchase.


This is a design of the next generation of violins with more than 4 strings. I am very happy and encouraged by many of my customers who have contributed to make this design possible. I have combined all the ideas and tested them on a few models at the workshop with my Vecchio maker. This is a 5 strings violin. But the unique design of this violin is that it has the body of a small viola with the length scaled down to 355mm. That is small enough for a warm hi E string that will remain pleasant to our ears. We increased the archings, and combined with the wider viola ribs and adjustments in the bass bar, a clear low C string is also made possible. We’ve increased the fingerboard slightly to accomodate the 5 strings. And we are very happy with the outcome of the tone achieved by this violin. We’ve already built this for 2 of our orchestral customers, who have been very happy with them so far. And we are happy to bring this unique violin to players looking for good flexibility.
We see this as a major breakthrough in our design in modern violins. Oil varnished. Matching maple, sides, neck and scroll make this a beautiful masterpiece.

Back:355 upper:168 middle:110 lower:211 ribs: 36 nut width:28 (mm)
Specifications:

  • 100% Handmade, 100% hand oil-varnished.
  • Selected Austrian Spruce Top, naturally air dried (over 50 years).
  • Selected Flamed Maple Back, Ribs & Scroll, naturally air dried (over 12 years).
  • Ebony Fingerboard.
  • Hand-carved Ebony pegs, tailpiece and chinrest.
  • Genuine Inlaid Purfling.

What’s in the box when I buy this violin?

  • One violin, one violin case & one bow
This item is normally shipped with the Bricks Pilot Case and Cobra Brazil Bow
Below is a gallery of photos of this model that has been sold previously.
#Sold Gallery
If you like to order this violin, you can choose from the latest inventory below:

Latest Inventory

After you have made your choice, just drop me an email and I will guide you for the purchase.


This violin uses naturally air dried tonewoods (of at least 18 years) from the Russian mountains. Because of the proximity of these mountains compared with our workshop in Beijing, the cost is much lower than tonewood from Europe, yet the growing conditions of these tonewood is very much similar to those in Europe, giving it comparable tonal qualities. Many musicians have been happy with their Russian violins from us. The straight grains on the top spruce is amplified by the Italian oil varnish that we apply. The inherent good tonal qualities of these woods enables the violin to vibrate freely and project a sweet sound, not equal to an old master violin, but instantly beautiful on the first stroke of the bow. To match the top quality of this violin, we have set it up with Dominant Strings and a French Aubert LUXE A bridge.
Specifications:

  • 100% Handmade, 100% hand oil varnished
  • Selected Austrian Spruce Top, naturally air dried (over 18 years)
  • Selected Bosnian Flamed Maple Back, Ribs & Scroll, naturally air dried (over 18 years)
  • Ebony Fingerboard
  • Hard-carved Ebony pegs, tailpiece and chinrest
  • Genuine Inlaid Purfling

What’s in the box when I buy this violin?

  • One violin and one violin case
This item is normally shipped with the Bricks Pilot Case.
Below is a gallery of photos of this model that has been sold previously.
#Sold Gallery
If you like to order this violin, you can choose from the latest inventory below:

Latest Inventory

After you have made your choice, just drop me an email and I will guide you for the purchase.


What’s unique about this instrument

This violin was initially made for an orchestra soloist. His requirements was to achieve a big projection, while at the same time warm mellow tone. We had the help of a violinmaker in US, who introduced a unique technique to improve the tone of the violin. Apart from tonewood treatment, the internal architecture of the violin also had some changes made according to achieve a certain scientific measurement target. Because of a patent protection, we are unable to review how different it is. But soon after the first few copies were made, this technique was proven to improve the violin in a certain number of ways. We have permission from our violinmaker to make this model as long as we do not review ways in which this violin was made. So here, we hope this special master model can find its way to find a new home in the hands of a professional player. Made with all european tonewood, this violin has influences from Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume’s copy of the Strad Messiah.

Specifications:

100% Handmade, 100% hand oil-varnished. Selected Austrian Spruce Top, naturally air dried (over 18 years). Selected Flamed Bosnian Maple Back, Ribs & Scroll, naturally air dried (over 18 years). Maple Fingerboard. Hand-carved pegs, tailpiece and chinrest. Genuine Inlaid Purfling.

What’s in the box when I win the auction?

I will pack this item inside a black canvas oblong violin case. It also comes with a good quality modern violin bow (Cobra Bow).
This item is normally shipped with the Bricks Pilot Case.
Below is a gallery of photos of this model that has been sold previously.
#Sold Gallery
If you like to order this violin, you can choose from the latest inventory below:

Latest Inventory

After you have made your choice, just drop me an email and I will guide you for the purchase.


This is a master violin by my maker Dan Sun, a small workshop in Beijing.

It is oil varnished, and the varnish is made by one of our client-luthier-supplier in Italy. Even we do not know the exact formula. But we are blessed because of its easy availability to us. The tone is nicely balanced on all 4 strings and responsive. With its good projection, this violin is suitable for solo performances.

We used aged Austrian Spruce and Bosnian Maple for this top level violin. This master level violin achieves many highs in terms of tone. A wonderfully warm, mellow tone, and with the sophistication in tone you would find in an old violin. And the trademark balanced tone evident in all Opera violins. This particular violin is a very fine top quality violin. You can tell that the craftmanship is excellent in all ways. I particularly like the peg workmanship.

This violin is a no nonsense oil-varnished violin suitable for most professionals. Antiquated slightly for that fine touch, it is a violin with a lot of charisma. The market value for this violin easily exceeds USD3000.

Aged all European wood, Italian made varnish, German violin making high standards, exquisite Chinese craftmanship. This violin represents the combination of the best.

This violin is available in both Guarneri and Strad models.

Specifications:

  • 100% Handmade, 100% hand oil varnished
  • Selected Austrian Spruce Top, naturally air dried (over 18 years)
  • Selected Bosnian Flamed Maple Back, Ribs & Scroll, naturally air dried (over 18 years)
  • Ebony Fingerboard
  • Hard-carved Ebony pegs, tailpiece and chinrest
  • Genuine Inlaid Purfling

What’s in the box when I buy this violin?

  • One violin and one violin case
This item is normally shipped with the Bricks Pilot Case.
Below is a gallery of photos of this model that has been sold previously.

#Sold Gallery

If you like to order this violin, you can choose from the latest inventory below:

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After you have made your choice, just drop me an email and I will guide you for the purchase.


This is a master violin by my maker Dan Sun, a small workshop in Beijing.

It is oil varnished, and the varnish is made by one of our client-luthier-supplier in Italy. Even we do not know the exact formula. But we are blessed because of its easy availability to us. The tone is nicely balanced on all 4 strings and responsive. With its good projection, this violin is suitable for solo performances.

We used aged Austrian Spruce and Bosnian Maple for this top level violin. This master level violin achieves many highs in terms of tone. A wonderfully warm, mellow tone, and with the sophistication in tone you would find in an old violin. And the trademark balanced tone evident in all Opera violins. This particular violin is a very fine top quality violin. You can tell that the craftmanship is excellent in all ways. I particularly like the peg workmanship.

This violin is a no nonsense oil-varnished violin suitable for most professionals. Antiquated slightly for that fine touch, it is a violin with a lot of charisma. The market value for this violin easily exceeds USD3000.

Aged all European wood, Italian made varnish, German violin making high standards, exquisite Chinese craftmanship. This violin represents the combination of the best.

This violin is available in both Guarneri and Strad models.
Specifications:

  • 100% Handmade, 100% hand oil varnished
  • Selected Austrian Spruce Top, naturally air dried (over 18 years)
  • Selected Bosnian Flamed Maple Back, Ribs & Scroll, naturally air dried (over 18 years)
  • Ebony Fingerboard
  • Hard-carved Ebony pegs, tailpiece and chinrest
  • Genuine Inlaid Purfling

What’s in the box when I buy this violin?

  • One violin and one violin case
This item is normally shipped with the Bricks Pilot Case.
Below is a gallery of photos of this model that has been sold previously.
If you like to order this violin, you can choose from the latest inventory below:

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After you have made your choice, just drop me an email and I will guide you for the purchase.


Why did we make this violin?

After we have launch the Russian series, we’ve had many good feedbacks from this maker from our buyers. Some of them have requested us to make this violin in even better tonewoods. Hence we have asked this maker to produce this violin using European tonewoods. Because in the selection in tonewoods have been improved, our violinmaker will also put in extra care in the making of this violin to make it a top level Master level violin. This would be the best possible violin that can be made by this maker. Russian violinmaking has a long history, earlier than even many European countries. There are some unique styles on the construction of the violin that the violinmakers has retain strictly as Russian style. We have retain these styles in this violin as well. Here we are happy to showcase it to you.

Measurements (in mm)

Top: 166. Middle: 111. Bottom: 205. Body Length: 354.

Specifications:

100% Handmade, 100% hand oil-varnished. Selected Austrian Spruce Top, naturally air dried (over 18 years). Selected Flamed Bosnian Maple Back, Ribs & Scroll, naturally air dried (over 18 years). Maple Fingerboard. Hand-carved pegs, tailpiece and chinrest. Genuine Inlaid Purfling. Fitted with steel strings (because it is very expensive to get gut strings in Asia)

What’s in the box when I win the auction?

I will pack this item inside a black canvas oblong violin case. It also comes with a good quality modern violin bow (Cobra Bow).
This item is normally shipped with the Bricks Pilot Case and Cobra Brazil Bow
Below is a gallery of photos of this model that has been sold previously.
#Sold Gallery
If you like to order this violin, you can choose from the latest inventory below:

Latest Inventory

After you have made your choice, just drop me an email and I will guide you for the purchase.


It is a violin of Stradivari style and made of European tonewoods, which can be seen from the dense and straight grain on the front and symmetric and pretty flamed back. Undoubtedly fine tonewoods demands for exquisite varnish, so its varnish is bright orange with some golden yellow leaked from the back. The surface of the varnish gives a stereovision matched by the symmetric flamed back. It’s bridge is DESPIAU bridge from France.
Specifications:

  • 100% Handmade, 100% hand oil varnished
  • Top Aged Austrian Spruce (24 years)
  • Top Aged Bosnian Maple (25 years)
  • Matching Aged Ebony Fingerboard
  • Hard-carved Boxwood pegs, tailpiece and chinrest
  • Genuine Inlaid Purfling

What’s in the box when I buy this violin?

  • One violin and  one violin case
This item is normally shipped with the Bricks Pilot Case .
Below is a gallery of photos of this model that has been sold previously.
#Sold Gallery
If you like to order this violin, you can choose from the latest inventory below:

Latest Inventory

After you have made your choice, just drop me an email and I will guide you for the purchase.


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