In the late 18th century a changing world took the violin out of churches, salons and taverns, and placed it in larger concert halls to play for bigger audiences, accompanied by bigger orchestras. To cope with this, several radical changes were made to increase the violin’s and cello’s carrying power. The body was reinforced making the instrument heavier; the angle of the neck relative to the body was altered.

Jumpstart Jr. aims to protect those instruments which are still in original condition from being irrevokably altered to aid modern play. 

Jumpstart Jr. is the custodian of a few instruments which were built in the baroque era and have been untouched since that time. Other instruments in our collection have been set-up in a baroque or classical form.