Features Heritage Advanced Professional Viola, Maggini Dumas, 16" Description Product Description All violas are sent set up. Instrument only, no case. If you require a case and/or bow, please see my other items for sale or email me: cantabilemusicshop AT gmail DOT com An interpretation of 'The Dumas' by G P Maggini, Brescia c.1600. AI050 Available sizes: 16", 16.25" As a viola maker Maggini is without equal. Contrasting the finesse of the Cremona school, the Brescian instruments of Gasparo da Salo and Maggini are considered cruder in their workmanship. Maggini, however, sought his own style. Virtuoso players demanding the forceful, but romantically dark Brescian sound seek after his instruments. Level Professional Sizes 16" & 16¼ Finish Oil varnish Chinrest Rose Guarneri Body Maple & spruce Bridge Fitted Maple Fingerboard Ebony Pegs Rose Paris Eye Tailpiece Rose Paris Eye Topnut Ebony 16" 406mm 16¼ 410mm All of our Heritage Instruments are supplied with a certificate of authenticity. Heritage Instruments: Hand Crafted Modern Classics from the United Kingdom's Specialist Supplier "As a specimen of Maggini's violas the Dumas instrument may confidently be pronounced unsurpassable." Gio: Paolo Maggini: His Life & Work, Margaret L.Huggins (compiled from papers & research by William Ebsworth & his Sons William, Arthur & Alfred Hill), W. E. Hill & Sons, London, 1892. Professional Viola The Heritage Series of instruments is exclusive to The Sound Post Ltd, UK. The range was commissioned to offer young musicians, going to University or Conservatoire, and Professional players, looking for a second instrument, the opportunity to own a stunning interpretation of a fine Italian instrument.