Kapeller Violins

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Kapeller Violins, LLC was founded in 1978 by Stephen Kapeller. Mr. Kapeller had an interest in instrument repair from his student experience with a luthier in Orange, NJ. His training included several years of study under Karl Roy, Hans Nebel, Arnold Bone and William Salchow. Mr. Kapeller studied cello with Ed Szabo and William Stokking at Rowan University and with Aldo Parisot at Yale. Mr. Kapeller had a long teaching career, directed the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra Program and played with the Richmond Symphony for thirty years.Greg D'Amato does most of the day-to-day repair and restoration work in the shop. Mr. D'Amato has trained in lutherie at Southern Connecticut State College and with Horst Kloss at the University of New Hampshire and worked in Arlington, Virginia with Harold Evans. He also is an accomplished pianist and composer.Jane Kapeller is responsible for general management of the shop, and for helping customers. Mrs. Kapeller studied violin in New York City with Sally Thomas and Ivan Galamian and at Indiana University with Tadeus Wronski and Joseph Gingold. She played professionally for twenty-five years. Cleo, a standard poodle, and Bruno, our rescued Swiss mountain mix, together comprise the welcoming committee and self-appointed critics at large. They each have lovely and distinctive singing voices. The staff has a combined 70 years of experience as luthiers and professional players. The strength of our background as players feeds into all aspects of the violin shop. It enables us to understand tonal adjustment, response, physical issues of players, string choices, etc.

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