David Cole – son of Orlando Cole (and a distinguished cellist/teacher in his own right) is seen here playing a cello made by William Moennig Jr in 1939 which is a copy of his father’s celebrated Montagnana cello known as “The Sleeping Beauty” Sitting watching him play is Metta Watts , longtime assistant to Mr Cole and for decades the owner of this cello. It is now owned by a protege of hers who is an aspiring cellist. The cello happened to be in my shop for bushing (filling with wood) the old peg holes and reaming them out to fit new pegs.The Montagnana model is the broadest cello model whose small,stubby F-holes are swallowed up in the wide expanse of the breast area of the top
