We need more music and more shop in our schools. This Child’s Savart Cello might help.

· Both front and back plates can be easily removed and replaced to permit plate replacement and an entirely rebuilt cello in about an hour!

· Builders can use a trial-and-error approach to finding the proper wood, plate dimensions, and bass bars, in the effort to get that perfect tone.

· We hope the gap between plate and fingerboard yields livelier plate and a brighter sound.

· (The gap also permits hard contact between plate spacer and rib and we hope no buzz!)

· With just two strings we hope the flat fingerboard and guitar peg tuning will make it very easy to build.