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Online Identification

Livschits Violins offers an online identification service. This express assessment is preliminary and can not be considered final before the instrument is physically inspected.

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Livschits Violins workshop and trading house was founded in 1991 in the heart of the city of Haifa. Now among the leading workshops and trading houses for bowed string instruments in Israel, we are engaged in all kinds of activities related to bowed string instruments: author's instruments making, repair and restoration, sale and rent, valuation and certification, while always seeking to sponsor music education and art in Israel..

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Online Identification

Livschits Violins offers an online identification service. This express assessment is preliminary and can not be considered final before the instrument is physically inspected.

To Identify Your Instrument Please Provide Following Information:

Any previous certificate, past valuation or appraisal information can help in identifying your instrument.

Look through the f-hole to check whether your instrument has an inner label. If it has, please provide us with details of the text. Photograph this label if you can.

Measure your instrument according to the instructions below to help us identify it.

For bow identification please provide its weight.

Measure the Instrument in millimetres According to the Scheme

Back length measured diagonally across the back

Upper bout

Middle bout

Lower bout

Photograph the Instrument

Photograph the instrument in front of a neutral coloured background, trying to avoid any reflection. Center camera lens in the middle area of the instrument. Photos should be focused, close up and well lit without flash.

Make photos of the front and back of the instrument, do not include neck and head.

Make scroll of the instrument from the side.

For the bow make clear photos of the frog and the tip.

Please Avoid Sending Photos that Cannot be Accepted!

- if your instrument is out of focus or has reflection or glare issues

- if the background is not plain

- if there is something else besides the instrument in the photo

Valuation and Certification

Livschits Violins provides instrument valuation service for insurance,as well as assessing the market value of the instrument. The assessment needs your personal presence and physical inspection of the instrument. One more important service is a certification. In cooperation with world leading experts, we can help you to obtain internationally recognized and universally accepted certificate of authenticity for your instrument.

For Travelling Abroad

Livschits Violins takes on the registration of Musical Instrument Passports and Bow Passports for Travelling Abroad. Valuation, Certification, Passport: 050-5930759