Photos from my trip to Paris, April 2006:

The Rue de Rome, home of many luthiers:

First, some carved double bass bridges:

   

 


Here's a violin that seems to resemble a rather "cheesy" instrument up for auction last April 1: -)



Some pictures of Raffin's shops:

 

A carved ram's head scroll:



A violin/shoe??:



A stainedglass decoration outside one shop:




Images from the Cite de la Musique's museum (http://www.cite-musique.fr/anglais/musee/parcours/visite/index.html)

A Chanot violin:




A "contralto":




A distorted violin:



A triangular violin:



A dual-instrument: violin on one side, viola on the other:



Various hand exercise machines (warning: don't do this at home!):

   



Various  horns and woodwinds:





 

A painting of Paganini bowing to Berlioz: