Description The Stentor Messina Cello is the first in Stentor’s range of high-grade orchestral instruments. These are superb handcrafted instruments, carved from selected and figured tonewoods. The Stentor Messina cello is made in a specialist hand workshop within the Stentor factory where the most skilled individual workers produce under the close supervision of a master maker, in a traditional luthier’s environment that would be familiar to makers throughout the centuries. The result is a fine instrument with a superior finish and sound. The cello is carved from solid tonewoods and finished with a hand-applied traditional shellac varnish and fitted with Jargar strings. All instruments are individually workshop fitted. Stentor Messina Cello: Hand carved from solid tonewoods Selected spruce front Figured maple back, ribs and neck Inlaid purfling Traditional shellac varnish Ebony fingerboard and pegs Jargar strings Caswells set up: We operate a strict policy of setting up every instrument to exact standards and specifications. The bridge is correctly cut and the soundpost correctly positioned. The pegs, case and bow are checked. Instruments are shipped with the bridges up.
