That Carbon Fiber Cello
By now we all probably know that Yo Yo Ma did NOT play his carbon fiber cello at the Inauguration and we didn’t hear the real notes he actually did play. But Mr Ma does play a carbon fiber cello and did play one at the Washington Mall for 10 days in 100-degree heat during a Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2003. He said that in heat like that he could control the strings on his carbon fiber cello in a way not possible on a wooden cello, and joked that the instrument could probably even double as a barbeque.
Luis and Clark at Seven Hills, Lenox 2007 Schubert “Trout”
Franz Schubert Piano Quintet in A Major ('Trout') D667. First 3 movements. Played by Laura Godberg, Julianne Lee, Luis Leguia, Lawrence Wolfe and Carmen Rodriguez-Peralta. The stringed instruments are all Luis & Clark Carbon Fiber [...]
The Bacon Brothers at the Michael Bacon Music studio
The Bacon Brothers at the Michael Bacon Music studio, New York City November 2001
Luis and Clark at Seven Hills, Lenox 2007
Lawrence Wolfe plays the Luis and Clark Carbon-Fiber Double Bass in Concert with Pianist Carmen Rodrigues-Peralta. 7/30/2007. Serge Koussevitsky: Two Pieces for Double Bass and Piano.
Caroline Leguia at age 15
Caroline Leguia playing Bach from the 2006 7 Hills concert.
Josephine van Lier selects the Luis and Clark Cello
For quite some time, I wanted to purchase a cello that I could safely use for teaching; my 1870 Mirecourt cello suffered quite seriously from being picked up and put down a thousand times a day, not to mention being dropped against the stand, I confess.
Carbon-Fiber Cellos No Longer Playing Second-Fiddle to Wooden Instruments
February 25, 2009

 - Scientific American Historically, carbon-fiber composites have beefed up airplane and space shuttle wings, formed rocket nose cones, and sliced through the waves in the America's Cup.
Derek Gomez’s carbon fibre cello unique
It's lighter, cheaper and it turns heads in the pit: Derek Gomez plays his $7,500 (Canadian dollars) space-age cello.
The Double Bass is Here
“The bass sounds just magical in the middle register and totally sings when soloing. Plus it's a ton of fun to play - the sloped shoulders are really comfortable and make accessing the upper register very easy...."
Luis and Clark at the 2009 Inauguration
Luis & Clark instruments take over the Inauguration! 44 Luis and Clark carbon fiber instruments were used exclusively by The Marine Orchestra during the Inauguration ceremony.
Philip Heyman and Luis Leguia
Philip Heyman is the principal viola of the Welsh National Opera Orchestra. He owns and plays a Luis and Clark viola. During the month of January, he and Luis Leguia played two recitals at the [...]
Selecciones-Readers’s Digest: Innovadores
A veces, un momento de inspiracion concluye en un gran triunfo.