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Hand Crafted Tailpieces

Alexander Accessories supplies hand-crafted tailpieces for violins and violas.  English and French styles can be made in boxwood, ebony, rosewood or African Blackwood and can be fitted with frets of ebony, unstained boxwood or bone (in place of ivory).

French Style Tailpiece

French style tailpiece in boxwood with bone fret.

English Style Tailpiece

English style tailpiece in stained boxwood with ebony fret.

Specifications

To create a bespoke tailpiece Alexander Accessories needs to know….

  • Is it for a violin or viola?
  • What style do you prefer?
  • What type of wood suits you?
  • What type of frets do you prefer?

We also need to know a precise length – either the overall length of the tailpiece or the length measured from the tip over the bottom button to the front of the fret.

There is no standard length of a tailpiece.  Each one is hand- crafted in our Leicestershire workshop to suit the individual instrument.