<div>Hello, I'm Theo and I am looking to raise money (£19,000) towards the purchase of a fine ‘baroque/classical’ cello for my exclusive use. The instrument is a c.1780 instrument made by the eminent (and infamous) English maker Lockey Hill – who made a number of excellent violins and cellos before being tried at the Old Bailey for horse stealing and executed in 1792. The cello is being sold by the London string instrument dealer/makers Bridgewood and Neizert for £30,000 (plus £1,000 for baroque adaptations).
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<div>Having the instrument will allow me to play the music (baroque and early classical) that I love and which I believe is enlivened by historically informed performance practice – there is no getting away from it - Bach just sounds better played on a period instrument with gut strings! This cello will be a real specialist historic instrument – ie one with all the sound-enriching features of that era – gut strings, specialist baroque and classical bows, lower bridge, no spike, ebony endpiece etc. For nineteenth and twentieth-century repertoire, I will keep my modern cello.
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<div>I have immediately put the cello to good use.  To showcase the new Lockey Hill cello, I will be playing a series of six concert programmes based around each of the Bach solo cello suites showing the development of the cello, dance and Bach biography. All donors will be invited - come and hear it for yourself!
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<div>This breathtaking photo of the interior of a 1780 Lockey Hill cello (not mine) was taken by cellist/photographer Charles Brooks. He has said that he will donate 20% of any photo print order income to this fund! Contact him at his website. <a href="https://www.charlesbrooks.info/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.charlesbrooks.info/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.charlesbrooks.info/</a></a>
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Help Theo to purchase a 1780 Baroque Cello

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