Also available are faithful copies of the following:

Josef and Juan Pagés, Cadiz, 1790-1830 6-Course, with pegs, or 6-String with pegs.

Louis Panormo, London, 1819-1845 6-String with pegs or machine-heads.

René Francois Lacote, Paris, 1820-1860 Six-string with pegs or machine-heads.

Gennaro Fabricatore, Naples, 1810-1845 Six-string with pegs or machine-heads.

Ian Watchorn began his professional career as a maker and repairer of musical instruments in Sydney, Australia in 1976. In 1979 he moved his workshop to Canberra, and in 1982 moved abroad to study musical instrument conservation at the Germanisches National Museum in Nurnberg Germany under Friedemann Hellwig and John Henry van der Meer.

In 1984 he accepted the post of conservator at the GNM, and was acting senior conservator before returning to Sydney to work on the conservation and collection development of the music exhibitions at the Powerhouse Museum. Following this he re-established his private studio in Melbourne where he has been working since 1990.

Ian's clients read as a list of who's who of performers, collectors and institutions in the field of early music.

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