Books on Music
Listed are more than 500 titles with an extensive variety of books on many musical subjects. Included are important books on violins, violas, cellos and other string instruments: A resource for musicians, luthiers, dealers and collectors.
Tonewood
We carry premium Tonewood: Bosnian maple and Italian spruce. We take two trips a year to Italy and the Balkans, to select the wood. After examining thousands of backs, taps, neck blocks and rib stock, every piece is carefully selected.
Modern Italian Instruments
Every instrument we acquire must be original, in very good condition and beautiful sounding. Over the years, we have developed a close relationship with individuals, collectors and makers in Italy. If you are looking for an instrument made by a particular Italian luthier of the 20th Century, we can help you locate one.
History
In 1983 Timberwood Industries, Inc. acquired the business of Marlin Brinser which was founded in 1948. Marlin Brinser was the supervisor of music for the Irvington, New Jersey schools. He was an innovative person with great ideas.
Bestsellers
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The Secrets of Stradivari
The “Tuscan” Stradivarius, originally part of the famous Medici Quintet of 1690, returned to Italy in 1953 after a fascinating collection of history and was kept in the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. This is one of Antonio Stradivari’s best preserved violins, as the Hill have remarked in their monograph of 1889 dedicated to […]
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The Girolamo Amati Viola – in the Galeria Estense
This famous four century viola made by Girolimo Amati is in almost untouched state. Beautiful full size photographs illustrate this fine instrument with multiple views, together with detailed dimensions. Images created by micro-CT scanning, image magnification and 3D imaging reveal the instrument’s inner world in ways that have not previously been possible. English text/ Lim. ed. of 1000 copies worldwide. […]
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The Violin – It’s History and Making
This hardback book contains nearly 800 pages of information of interest to beginners, learners and lovers of the violin and violinmaking. The intent is to explain the most important details of classical violinmaking from selection of wood, through varnishing, instrument set up, and the changes that occurred in the instruments and craft over the centuries. It is […]
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Ferdinando Garimberti
Special offer: famous Italian violin maker of the early 20th. century: Ferdinando Garimberti – $165! The instruments, 25 by Garimberti are beautifully photographed full size in color: backs, tops, scrolls, f-holes, brandings, labels, Includes detailed critical dimensions, biographies and many other pictures. Stradivari models. Original published price: $315. Lim. stock/out of print (acquired remaining available […]
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Violin Makers. The Renaissance of Italian Lutherie
Count Cozio di Salabue to Giuseppe Fiorini, from the Bisiachs in Milan to the foundations of the first schools of violin making, the history of bowed instruments during the past two centuries in Italy, narrated through the testimonials of the leading makers of our times, and featuring the instruments of the most important Italian collections, […]
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Antonio Stradivari (Vol I-IV) Free Shipping
Outstanding publication documenting some 130 of Stradivari’s instruments made throughout his career. Each instrument is beautifully photographed in color, full size: tops, backs, scrolls, f-holes, labels. Cello’s are pictured in fold out sheets. Contains fascinating history of every featured instrument, precisely described & classified within Stradivari’s complete creative periods. Includes detailed critical dimensions + CD with arching […]
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The 1690 Tuscan Stradivari violin
One of the most outstanding books on the violin. Comprehensive technical account of a Stradivari violin in the condition as it came out of his shop. We have excellent descriptive text, precise measurements, magnificent photography, dendrochronology. CT scanning and expert varnish examination – even a DVD with 3D imagery and crisp sound recordings. Vivid photographs are […]
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Il Conte Cozy di Salabue
Anyone interested in the history of violin making knows that Count Cozio of Salabue played a determinant role in conserving and promoting the old violin making traditions. The fact that we can admire the tools and drawings used by Antonio Stradivari, that we have available vital information about the violin makers of the past and […]
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Ansaldo Poggi: violin maker
An excellent resource on the famous Italian violin maker, Ansaldo Poggi. Eight of Poggi’s violins, a Cello and a viola, and a violin by Giuseppe Fiorini(Poggi’s teacher), are beautifully photographed in color: Tops, backs, scrolls, f-holes. Has all the important critical dimensions. Also includes archings and thicknesses for the top and back of a 1932 Poggi […]
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La Famiglia Guarneri e le copie italiane del ‘900
In handbooks of the history of music, the name Guarneri is linked to the Cannone, the mythical instrument that belonged to Niccolo Paganini and which he subsequently donated to the City of Genoa, where it is still conserved. In some cases mention is also make of his dualism with Stradivari, but nothing more. Perhaps this […]
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Masters of the Cremona International School of Violin Making: 1938-2008
34 Instruments by each of 34 important graduates of the Cremona school are nicely illustrated in color: tops, backs, scrolls. Includes biography on each maker. Covers period when the school was established: 1938 to 2008. Excellent resource on the important violin makers from Cremona, Italy.
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Liuteria Piemontese, Annibale Fagnola
Hannibal Fagnola. This first major monograph, part of a much larger project that is closely related to all the great Piedmontese violin making modern, was devoted to Hannibal Fagnola, a character certainly atypical of violin-making environment of his time not only an artisan devoted to his activity, but also a man skillful in managing the […]
$345.00