Stoehr cello - to be set up. The price includes setting up that includes a Bavarian spruce sound post, the highest quality French bridge, ca $600 worth of strings, and a German Carbon Tailpiece.

• Use of matured, high-quality tonewoods

• Beautifully flamed Bosnian maple for the back, rib and neck

• Slow, evenly-grown mountain spruce is used for the top.

• Use Traditional Guild knowledge with modern technology to achieve a tonal optimum.

• Varnish is personally produced, following traditional recipes using only select resins.

• With loving care, each cello, such as this one, is given a special touch.

• Customers repeatedly praised him for the instrument’s light response and strong, full tone paired with the instrument’s inner melodiousness.

The Lillo Salerno Cello 2025 is a contemporary workshop instrument bearing the label “Strumento di bottega – Salerno Lillo – ex cremonensis fecit anno 2025” and numbered LS 2025-04. Italian-born Lillo Salerno trained at the violin-making schools of Cremona and Mittenwald before establishing his workshop in Pforzheim, Germany, in 2005. His instruments blend traditional Italian and German violin-making influences, making this 2025 cello an appealing modern instrument with strong European craftsmanship credentials.

Key Features:

• Maker: Lillo Salerno

• Year: 2025

• No.: LS 2025-04

• Type: Workshop cello

• Training: Cremona & Mittenwald

The Paul Blanchard Workshop Cello, Lyon 1906, is an early 20th-century French instrument bearing the label “Fait dans l’Atelier de P. Blanchard Lyon 1906.” Paul François Blanchard (1851–1912) was a distinguished Mirecourt-born luthier who established an important workshop in Lyon and served as luthier to the Lyon Conservatoire. Significantly, the label identifies this cello as made in Blanchard’s workshop, rather than specifically claiming manufacture by Blanchard himself. Dating from the mature period of his atelier, it represents the respected tradition of early 20th-century Lyon violin making.

Key Features:

• Workshop: Paul Blanchard

• Dates: 1851–1912

• Year: 1906

• Place: Lyon, France

• Type: Workshop cello

• Origin: French

The Léon Bernardel Cello, Paris 1928, is a late-period French instrument bearing the label of Léon Bernardel (1853–1931), numbered 1108, and featuring a 2200 back. Bernardel was a respected Parisian luthier from the celebrated Bernardel family, trained by Justin Derazey, and worked with Gand & Bernardel Frères before establishing his own workshop at 40 bis Faubourg Poissonnière. His instruments continued the family's distinguished French tradition and were frequently inspired by Lupot and Stradivari models.

Key Features:

• Maker: Léon Bernardel

• Dates: 1853–1931

• Year: 1928

• Place: Paris

• No.: 1108

• Back: 2200

 Achieving ultimate in substance, purity and melodiousness of sound.

• Use of matured, high-quality tonewoods

• Beautifully flamed Bosnian maple for the back, rib and neck

• Slow, evenly-grown mountain spruce is used for the top.

• Use Traditional Guild knowledge with modern technology to achieve a tonal optimum.

• Varnish is personally produced, following traditional recipes using only select resins.

• With loving care, each cello, such as this one, is given a special touch.

• Customers repeatedly praised him for the instrument’s light response and strong, full tone paired with the instrument’s inner melodiousness.

Recently SOLD Thomas Stoehr Master cello - to be set up. The price includes setting up that includes a Bavarian spruce sound post, the highest quality French bridge, ca $600 worth of strings, and a German Carbon Tailpiece.

• Use of matured, high-quality tonewoods

• Beautifully flamed Bosnian maple for the back, rib and neck

• Slow, evenly-grown mountain spruce is used for the top.

• Use Traditional Guild knowledge with modern technology to achieve a tonal optimum.

• Varnish is personally produced, following traditional recipes using only select resins.

• With loving care, each cello, such as this one, is given a special touch.

• Customers repeatedly praised him for the instrument’s light response and strong, full tone paired with the instrument’s inner melodiousness.

Louis Noebe was a German cellist who studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and played in several orchestras. He became a solo cellist and later established a workshop for creating violins, violas, and cellos. He improved violin making and developed the System Noebe, which increased the vibrations of the cello. He was also a German violin maker whose clients included famous musicians. He innovated in piano construction and developed a four-part coupling pedal in 1893. Today, his former residence is a listed building, and the Bad Homburg Municipal Historical Museum bought a violin by Louis Noebe for its 100th anniversary in 2016.