Model

Andreas Eastman VA305 Viola

Performance viola (Andreas Eastman line)

The Andreas Eastman VA305 is one of Eastman's most popular violas, valued for its strong tonal and visual personality. It has a spruce top, maple back and ribs, ebony fittings, hand-inlaid purfling, a Despiau bridge, and a hand-applied shaded spirit varnish, and is offered on the Stradivari pattern in body lengths from 17 inches down to 12 inches.

Category

  • Violas

    Violas, viola makers, model families, and related orchestral bowed-string variants.

Made by

  • Eastman Strings

    Eastman Strings is an orchestral string instrument brand with violin, viola, cello, bass, bow, case, and string-family instrument lines.

Part of series

  • Eastman VA Viola Series

    China

    Eastman's numbered VA viola 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 a range of body lengths.

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