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Cellos
Cellos, cello makers, model families, and related orchestral bowed-string variants.
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Ascesa VC85 Cello
Cello · China
The Ascesa VC85 is an entry-level cello from Eastman's Ascesa student line, built with a laminated spruce top, laminated maple back and ribs, ebony fittings with a composite tailpiece, and a satin varnish over a hand-applied spirit base. Durable and easy to maintain, it is offered in sizes from 4/4 down to 1/8 for beginners, schools, and rental programs.
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Stentor Student II Cello
Cello · China
The Stentor Student II cello (model SR1108) is a student cello outfit with a hand-carved solid spruce top and solid maple back, sides, and neck, an ebony fingerboard, and a set-up package with bow and soft case. A step above the Student I, it is widely used in school and youth orchestra programs and is offered in fractional sizes from 1/8 up to full 4/4.
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Samuel Eastman VC150 Cello
Cello · China
The Samuel Eastman VC150 is a student cello combining a hand-carved solid spruce top with a maple back and laminated maple ribs, ebony fingerboard and fittings with a composite tailpiece, hand-inlaid purfling, a Despiau bridge, and an amber-brown high-gloss varnish. Cut on the Stradivari pattern, it is offered in sizes from 4/4 down to 1/10.
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Yamaha SVC-210SK
Cello
The Yamaha SVC-210SK is a full-size SILENT Series electric cello designed for stage performance, recording, and quiet practice. A piezo pickup with volume, aux-in volume, and a three-position reverb switch (Room/Hall 1/Hall 2) feeds headphone and line outputs. Construction is spruce and maple with a maple neck and ebony fingerboard.
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Stentor Arcadia Cello
Cello · China
The Stentor Arcadia cello (model SR1596) is a handmade cello made completely of solid wood and noted for its excellent craftsmanship, hand carved from select figured tonewoods with ebony fittings and finished in England. It sits at the top of Stentor's high-grade orchestral range.
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Eastman VC Cello Series
China
Eastman's numbered VC cello range, ordered by grade number from accessible student outfits up to performance and master-level instruments. It spans the Ascesa and Samuel Eastman student lines and the Andreas Eastman step-up and performance lines, with higher numbers indicating progressively finer tonewoods, fittings, and hand-applied varnish. Models are offered in full and fractional sizes.
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Heinrich Gill W3 Cello
Cello · Germany
The Heinrich Gill W3 is a step up in the Gill cello line, handmade in Bubenreuth, Germany, with a finely figured flamed maple back, ribs, and scroll, an even tight-grained solid spruce top, ebony fittings, and a deeper hand-applied varnish. It offers a warm, even, projecting tone favored by advancing and conservatory cellists who want a long-term European instrument.
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Andreas Eastman VC200 Cello
Cello · China
The Andreas Eastman VC200 is the entry model of the Andreas Eastman line, a hand-crafted step-up cello made from select carved tonewoods with a spruce top, maple back and ribs, ebony fittings with a composite tailpiece, hand-inlaid purfling, a Despiau bridge, and a hand-applied shaded spirit varnish. It is offered on Stradivari and Montagnana patterns in sizes from 4/4 down to 1/8.
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Stradivari "Servais" Cello
Cello · Italy
The 'Servais' is a 1701 cello by Antonio Stradivari, among the jewels of the Smithsonian's instrument collection and named for the 19th-century Belgian cellist Adrien-Francois Servais. It is Stradivari's last instrument of the large 'bassetto' type used in the 17th century and one of the few of that size never cut down to the smaller proportions Stradivari standardized after about 1707. It is renowned for an exceptionally rich, powerful tone.
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Andreas Eastman VC305 Cello
Cello · China
The Andreas Eastman VC305 is one of Eastman's most popular cellos, recognized for outstanding tone and appearance. It has a spruce top, maple back and ribs, ebony fittings with a Wittner tailpiece, hand-inlaid purfling, a Despiau bridge, and a hand-applied shaded spirit varnish, and is offered on Stradivari and Montagnana patterns in sizes from 4/4 down to 1/4.
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Samuel Eastman VC100 Cello
Cello · China
The Samuel Eastman VC100 is a student cello with a hand-carved solid spruce top, a maple back with laminated maple ribs, ebony fittings with a composite tailpiece, hand-inlaid purfling, a Despiau bridge, and an amber-brown high-gloss varnish. Cut on the Stradivari pattern, it is offered in sizes from 4/4 down to 1/10 for beginning and advancing players.
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Samuel Eastman VC80 Cello
Cello · China
The Samuel Eastman VC80 is the entry-level cello in Eastman's Samuel Eastman line, built with durable fully laminated spruce and maple, an ebony fingerboard, composite tailpiece, and a Despiau bridge, finished in a high-gloss varnish on the Stradivari pattern. Easy to maintain and offered from 4/4 down to 1/8, it is a common school and rental beginner cello.
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Makers
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Eastman Strings
Eastman Strings is an orchestral string instrument brand with violin, viola, cello, bass, bow, case, and string-family instrument lines.
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NS Design
NS Design is the electric bowed-string instrument brand founded by American luthier Ned Steinberger. It makes electric violins, violas, cellos, and double basses, including the WAV, NXTa, and CR series. Its instruments share the NS Polar directional piezo pickup, a patented self-clamping tuning system, and an adjustable-height bridge.
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Antonio Stradivari
A historical luthier associated with violins, violas, cellos, guitars, and other string instruments.
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Stentor Music
Stentor Music is a British orchestral string instrument brand associated with student and advancing violins, violas, cellos, double basses, bows, and cases.
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Heinrich Gill
Heinrich Gill is a German bowed-string instrument maker with a focus on handcrafted violin-family instruments, especially cellos and related orchestral strings.
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Bowed String Instruments
String instruments and accessories centered on bowed performance.