#carbonfiberinstruments

What I wanted was a cello that would sound great. I wanted the tone of a Stradivarius or Montagnana cello and I wanted it to carry out over [the] orchestra when you play a concerto. And I wanted it with a beautiful quality. In the final result, you can see it’s not a wood cello but the quality is beautiful, the power and reverberation is just superb, and the depth of it I find wonderful. I’m extremely pleased.

Years ago, I became a boating enthusiast. I grew to appreciate fiberglass boats because they are lighter, stonger and more durable than wooden boats. [I wondered] if fiberglass could do for the cello what it has done for the boat...The result of ten years of experimentation with both material and design is the “Luis & Clark Cello,” named after my partner, Steve Clark, and me.