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Taylors Fine Violins Lyndon Johann TaylorSan Gorgonio Dr.Redlands, California
Phone: 909-793-8506 We cater to lovers of all kinds of music,and feature instruments that appeal to a wide range of people, specifically instruments that show sign of decades of use, through natural, not artificial wear to the instrument and the varnish, In addition to careful restorations, I take a lot of time with setup; bridge, soundpost, pegs, and fingerboard, to get the best sound out of the violins I restore. I price our violins reasonably, you might be pleasantly suprised by some of our prices. My repair prices are reasonable,too, $60 to fit a bridge, $100 to fit new pegs, including the high quality parts. I charge as little as $250 to dissasemble the violin, repair up to three cracks, and put it all back together in tip top shape, but fittings are extra. I also give free verbal opinions and reccomendations; We pride ourselves in being straightforward and honest with our customers, and am looking forward to serving you to the best of our ability.HONESTY IS OUR BEST POLICY is our motto, we do not offer appraisals but we give free, honest, verbal opinions. I have over 25yrs experience in musical instrument making and restoration, having split my time about 50/50 between violins and clavichords (baroque keyboard instruments). For the last four years I have concentrated on violins and slowly built up my skills and inventory. I apprenticed with viola maker C. Martin Kob, Yucaipa CA, bow maker Burdell Tenney, Redlands, CA, violin maker RE Evans, Riverside, CA. and clavichord maker Thomas Glueck, near Vienna Austria. By appointment, days and evenings. Mon-Sat Opinions expressed below are those of their authors alone. From Lyndon Taylor
In all honesty Nicolas, there was nothing wrong with youre violin, you wanted an new modern curve fingerboard,I provided you first with a less curved totally historical fingerboard which you chose to replace, then you claimed the sound had greatly improved because Mr. Potter adjusted the soundpost, something I had already reccomended you do, Mr Potter told you the bridge was to low and needed to be replaced so I sent you a new $20 bridge, $30 fingerboard and a check for Mr Potter to do the work, then Mr Potter made a mistake fitting the fingerboard, he didn't get the bridge any higher, so he ended up using my bridge, and replaced the fingerboard for $150 bucks, he then said the violin was French worth $5000, 2 1/2 times what you payed for it, when an aknowledged top expert had already appraised it as German, don't mean to complain here, but youre 90% glowing review questions the quality of my work, and I have to clarify, sincerely Lyndon Posted via 4.232.204.175 on April 30, 2008 at 4:36 PM (MST)
From Nicholas Fitzgerald
I purchased a baroque violin from Lyndon Taylor last summer. Mr. Taylor was honest, open, very straightforward, and allowed me the appropriate time to get the instrument authenticated and appraised before completing the purchase. The gentleman who appraised my instrument -- Dalton Potter, of Potter's Violins in Bethesda, MD -- indicated to me that some work on the neck needed to be done. I informed Mr. Taylor of this, who promptly sent me the hardware that was needed as well as a check discounting the cost of the labor from the total cost of the instrument purchase.Posted via 128.239.153.203 on April 29, 2008 at 9:39 AM (MST) It was a pleasure doing business with Mr. Taylor -- I highly recommend him to anyone interested in potentially purchasing an instrument. He is honest, friendly, and flexible -- again, I highly recommend him.
From Lyndon Taylor
Emilaino, I am sorry I am not interested in youre "Guarneri" I have seen the pictures and it looks Fake to me, since my last posting we have added several new violins, A genuine hand signed, not stamped Hopf baroque violin, c. 1800 Full baroque setup and gut strings. Being restored as we speak, a fine c1700 Grafted original, looking very much like the work Of Matteo Goffriller, Venice, at worst a fine south german instrument from that time point,(Goffriller emigrated to Italy form South Germany or Tyrol, also a fine spectacular dark red finish Carlo Bergonzi copy c.1850, probably German, also just stringing up tonight, a fine 19th century German factory violin, the body looking quite Italian. Give us a call, we'd love to have you visit, sincerely Lyndon j Taylor Posted via 4.231.169.91 on April 28, 2008 at 7:00 PM (MST)
From Emiliano Errecalde
Hi,Posted via 201.253.42.2 on April 23, 2008 at 7:37 AM (MST) A customer has an old violin that belonged to an Italian musician,and I suppose that the instrument is very valious, therefore icontact you. The violin is an Giuseppe Guarnieri del Gesu made in1735. The violin have a label inside that you can see thedescriptions. The descriptions are: Joseph Guarnerius Cremonensisfaciebat anno 1735 I.H.S. the violin belonged of the great-grand father of my customer. If the violin is a genuine guarnerius. The question is: Im intrested in sell the violin. I have pics. could you send me an email? I'll Answer with pics. My e-mail account: eerrecalde@hotmail.com Perhaps you can help me and contact with an indicated person. thanks a lot, Best regards, Emiliano.
From Lyndon Taylor
Edmond we are a retail shop open to the public, not specializing in internet sales, the best way to find out about our instruments is call us on the phone, if you do we do have instrument pictures to send you, since my last message we have added 1712 labeled and stamped Francois Trevillot Paris, c.1750 Testore school, Italian or German, c.1900 French Maggini model, and several others, Thank you, sincerely Lyndon J Taylor Posted via 4.231.172.162 on March 18, 2008 at 6:16 PM (MST)
From edmund jones
Hi, where do you give details of your instruments for sale?Posted via 86.112.203.30 on August 3, 2007 at 1:33 AM (MST) Regards....Ed.
From Ulf Eriksson
Hi Lyndon I saw pictures of the Riechers violin on ebay it looks fine, just like the ones I had, great maker, all the best Ulf Posted via 80.163.147.170 on August 2, 2007 at 2:29 AM (MST)
From Lyndon Taylor
Hi, Lyndon again, since my last post 3 months ago I have doubled my inventory of restored, set up for sale instruments,to about 16, and added some more expensive, better sounding instruments; Johannes Brun 1916, Sweden, August Riechers, Berlin c.1870, a beautiful very old violin labeled Gasparo da Salo in Brescia, Johann Gabriel Martin c.1820 Voigtlande, possibly Italian with reproduction label Carlo Tononi, Venice, Georg Thir, Vienna 1862, you might be suprised at how affordable some of these quality instruments are, we also have some instruments in the $300-1000 range for the budget minded, give me a call I'd be happy to setup an appointment days or evenings, sincerely Lyndon Posted via 4.232.204.154 on July 14, 2007 at 8:03 PM (MST)
From Lyndon Taylor
Hi, this is Lyndon Taylor again. Just to update my listing, I'm a small shop run out of my house here in Redlands, 60 miles due East of LA off the 10 Freeway, in this area I can also recommend visiting Joshua Blevins in Riverside, and specially Jim Brown, in Claremont. I do things a little different, virtually all of my violins date before 1900, I don't sell or recommend Chinese violins, and I only have one Strad label violin in the shop, and that's a quite good quality French one.Posted via 63.16.138.46 on April 16, 2007 at 10:36 AM (MST) I currently have 8 violins strung up, fully professionaly set up and ready for sale in the $500-$2500 range, I also have a wealth of unfinished instruments, if you see one you really like we can talk about getting it finished in a timely fashion, with no obligation to buy. My prices are reasonable and I offer interesting instruments, especially to non-classical players, that you won't see much at other shops. Our motto, HONESTY IS OUR BEST POLICY, free verbal evaluations, I don't normally work on customer's violins though, for repairs I recommend Hans Weishaar in Hollywood, Tom Metzler in Pasadena, Michael Fisher in LA, and Jim Brown in Claremont
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