Swiss Wood Solutions

Sonowood: tailor-made for your string instrument

Sonowood Geige

String instrument making is emotional. Many instruments are unique and carefully handcrafted. This is exactly the case with Sonowood as well. We manufacture each piece individually, no fingerboard resembles the next. The aesthetics and the extraordinary hardness and density guarantee excellent performance.

We offer fittings as well as squared timbers in spruce (Picea abies) and maple (Acer pseudoplatanus). We use wood from sustainable Swiss forestry, mainly from the cantons of Zurich and Grisons.

Find our current assortment below. Technical data on Sonowood maple, Sonowood walnut and Sonowood spruce can be found here.

Sonowood Fittings

All fittings available from maple, walnut and spruce for violin and viola.
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Fingerboard

Fingerboard from Sonowood spruce (left), maple (center) and walnut (right). Photo: Berdani Feinste Bestandteile Fingerboard from Sonowood maple Fingerboard from Sonowood spruce Fingerboard from Sonowood spruce Fingerboard from Sonowood maple made by Wilhelm Geigenbau Fingerboard from Sonowood spruce made by Wilhelm Geigenbau Fingerboard and tailpiece from Sonowood spruce. Photo: Andreas Hochuli Charles Gaillard 1863 with a fingerboard and tailpiece from Sonowood spruce made by Wilhelm Geigenbau. Photo: The Strad Magazine Fingerboard from Sonowood spruce made by Wilhelm Geigenbau

Tailpiece

Tailpiece from Sonowood spruce, maple and walnut made by Wilhelm Geigenbau. Photo: The Strad Magazine Tailpiece from Sonowood maple Tailpiece from Sonowood maple Tailpiece from Sonowood spruce Tailpiece from Sonowood walnut made by Berdani Feinste Bestandteile Tailpiece and chinrest from Sonowood maple made by Wilhelm Geigenbau Tailpiece from Sonowood spruce made by Wilhelm Geigenbau Tailpiece from Sonowood spruce on a Amati Violin equipped by Wilhelm Geigenbau Sonowood walnut fittings made by Berdani Feinste Bestandteile Cello tailpiece from Sonowood maple made by Wilhelm Geigenbau

Sets

Sonowood square timbers for fingerboard and tailpiece. Left: walnut, center: maple, right: spruce Sonowood square timbers for fingerboard and tailpiece. Front: spruce, center: maple, back: walnut Square timbers from Sonowood walnut Square timbers from Sonowood maple for fingerboard, tailpiece and pegs Fittings from Sonowood walnut made by Berdani Feinste Bestandteile Fittings from Sonowood walnut made by Berdani Feinste Bestandteile Pegs from Sonowood spruce, maple and walnut made by Berdani Feinste Bestandteile

Kinnhalter

Chinrest from Sonowood maple made by Wilhelm Geigenbau Chinrest from Sonowood maple made by Wilhelm Geigenbau Chinrest from Sonowood maple made by Wilhelm Geigenbau Chinrest from Sonowood maple made by Berdani Feinste Bestandteile Chinrest from Sonowood maple made by Berdani Feinste Bestandteile Chinrest from Sonowood walnut made by Berdani Feinste Bestandteile Chinrest from Sonowood walnut made by Berdani Feinste Bestandteile

Endbutton

Endbutton from Sonowood maple made by Wilhelm Geigenbau Endbutton from Sonowood maple made by Berdani Feinste Bestandteile Endbutton from Sonowood maple made by Berdani Feinste Bestandteile Endbutton from Sonowood maple made by Berdani Feinste Bestandteile

Sonowood Squared Timbers

Square timbers in maple and spruce are available in sizes suitable for fingerboards, tailpieces, chinrests, pegs and end buttons. For cello: pegs and tailpieces only, the remaining sizes coming soon.

Sonowood maple as square timber (top), native maple below Sonowood spruce as square timber (top), native spruce below Pegs made from Sonowood maple made by Wilhelm Geigenbau Pegs made from Sonowood spruce. Picture by Mihail Dron & Andreas Hochuli

How do I get Sonowood?

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Stradivarius with Sonowood

Stradivarius from 1721 with a fingerboard and tailpiece from Sonowood spruce equipped by Wilhelm Geigenbau.