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Thomas Andres Double Bass Makers
 
     

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Double Basses for the Student and Professional
 
NEWS: Our latest bass won a Certificate of Merit for Tone at the
ISB Makers Competition !
 

Thomas Andres Wolf was trained as a bass player at the Interlochen Arts Academy and the New England Conservatory. He free-lanced for years playing in opera, ballet, symphony, early music, and chamber orchestras. Known worldwide as a maker, restorer, and historian of harpsichords and fortepianos, he maintains a workshop for the restoration and production of  keyboard instruments with his wife, Barbara. He has been a James Smithson Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
With extensive training and experience in musical instrument making and conservation, Tom has expanded his bass activities to better serve the orchestra, jazz, bluegrass, and period performance bassists he so admires.
In an effort to eliminate all negative sounds (wolf tones) his basses are signed
Thomas Andres Bass Makers.
 
 

We design and make high quality double basses and violones. Basses from the Vaughan & Langosch collection are for sale, and we are dealers for new instruments by Xuechang Sun, Christopher, Shen and other makers.

Thomas Wolf does setups and repairs; treatment reports with photos are provided as appropriate. Rentals for concerts, recordings, and study can be arranged. Instruments are customized with extensions, capos, carbon fiber endpins, new machines and other special requests. We also have experience with conversions and setups for period instruments.

There are currently more than a dozen basses for sale in all price ranges.
Commissions for new basses and violones are encouraged.
 
Our workshop is located in a century-old schoolhouse in the beautiful horse and wine country of northern Virginia forty miles west of Washington, DC.
 
Your visit is welcome: please call ahead to schedule an appointment. 540-253-5430

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Our workshop.

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Contact us by phone at 540-253-5430