Sacconi Cello

I inherited a Simone Fernando Sacconi Cello in about 1975 when I was in High School. The cello was made in 1933 for and played by my father's uncle, Rosalini DeMaria, who played for the Boston Symphony. I got the instrument because after he passed away I was the only one in the family who played the cello. I am getting it appraised and as a precursor to the appraisal, the appraiser asked me to send him some photo's. This is apparently a rare musical instrument, possibly with some historical value as Simone was better know for making violins, and was the farmost expert in duplicating and repairing musical instruments made by the famous Stradivarius. Here's one taken with my 40D and EF100mm f/2.8 Macro...

How about some photos of the cello from the side of scroll, f-hole, bridge and so on? What about the bow? Did you inherit the bow, too? If so, it may be worth as much as the cello itself. As far as the image itself goes, I don't care for the dark background. I prefer white, like this one (my boy's 1806 violin):

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I also have 2 Victor Fetique bows, made in Paris Circa late 1800's. I have some other pictures with a light background, but only of some of the parts since I don't have a white backdrop big enough to accomodate the entire instrument. I didn't do anything photographicaly creative with it yet because I was primarily interetested in providing the pictures the appraiser asked for, but I do intend to get creative with it in the next few days. In the mean time, if you're interested you can see all the pictures I've taken of it so far on the CANON iMAGE GATEWAY SITE: http://www.cig.usa.can​on.com/p?p=DsKYEPLHEZE

I posted them here so the appraiser could have full access to the high resolution photography. I have yet to tke pictures of the sides, but you can see the bows and some full size pictures of the instrument. The detial and DOF produced by the 100mm f/2.8 Macro is incredible. I have to reshoot some of these with a smaller aperture.

Nice shot of the violin, by the way...

Thanks, Jim

You mean like this?

beautiful instrument