News — in the white

Many buyers may be unaware of the existence of instruments sold "in the white".  This doesn't mean instruments that are painted white, or that have a colourless varnish.  It is a way that instruments are sold by makers either to other makers or to dealers who are specialist enough and large enough to have their own varnishing facilities (which basically means a large enough space to hang up instruments to dry, away from anything likely to stick to the varnish (flies perhaps?!) and the time to hand brush varnish over the instrument perhaps ten times or more).  This is the...