About Paul Perley Cellos

Paul Perley

In business since 1988, Paul Perley Cellos has placed instruments in the hands of professionals and students in most of the fifty states and parts of Canada.

Mr. Perley has studied instrument repair extensively under Hans Nebel and Horst Kloss.

Paul Perley Cellos goal has always been to provide customers with unique instruments of high quality and professional sound.

Paul Perley Cellos is a small, full service shop with a full inventory of violin family instruments.

In contacting us you are assured that you will receive prompt, personal attention from Paul himself.

Paul Perley, who is also an active cellist, resides with his wife and business partner Melissa and their family on Berlin Pond in Vermont.

Bryan Byrne comes to us highly skilled and highly recommended. Bryan has studied violin-making with Karl Roy and Ed Campbell, and restoration with Hans Nebel and Horst Klaus, and has had over four years of shop experience. In addition he is also internationally respected as a maker of fine wooden flutes.

Bryan has lived in France, taught elementary school, was a production potter, raced bicycles, and plays Irish flute and Irish fiddle. Melissa and I are excited to have Bryan Byrne be part of Paul Perley Cellos. We invite all our customers to come to the shop and meet Bryan.

Vienna Visit

On a recent trip to Vienna, Melissa and I took the opportunity to visit the Machold violin shop there. The people there couldn’t have been nicer. We were taken to a lower floor and shown a truly delectable assortment of Italian cellos including a lovely Grancino and one of three extant Maggini cellos. The Maggini was sold by the Macholds as part of a Maggini quartet, one violin of which was a rare Maggini single purfling instrument.

We spent part of an afternoon, looking at great instruments, trading shop stories, and just generally enjoying ourselves. Below are photos of the shop, two great cellos including the Maggini, and Melissa and a sixth generation Machold holding two lovely Stradivaris.