'No Name' Cello Finds a Home and a New Musical Life
It was a jewel in the rough
In the fall of 1997, I visited instrument maker and repairman Curtis Bryant about a mundane matter—changing bridges on my cello, I think. But he had a much more exciting proposition to discuss. He had acquired an old “no-name” English cello that was in original condition, with all its original fittings. It had never been modernized; the first neck, fingerboard, bass bar, and pegs were still there, and even the bridge appeared to date from the early 19th century. This was an exceedingly rare find: a cello that time had forgotten!
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