Jay Haide instruments are hand-made of quality seasoned maple and spruce. Their tone quality and workmanship is of a very high standard.

Jay Haide make four quality levels of violins, viola and cello. The Model 101 uses an alcohol varnish.  The à l'ancienne, Model 201 and Model 104 are made from finer quality aged wood by more senior violin makers with the 104 range using an oil varnish and the varnish for the à l'ancienne  being specially developed by the Jay Haide company

The new Jay Haide à l'ancienne violins, violas, cellos and basses have been developed for the advanced student and professional and have taken years of development.  Each à l'ancienne instrument has also been carefully and beatifully antiqued to give a look of age and use.

The Jay Haide Company was formed in 1992 and the name is taken from the two founders Jay Ifshin and Haide Lin their aim being to produce stringed instruments of consistant and high quality.  Haide Lin was the then shop foreman of Ifshin Violins who was already a master violin maker trained in  Guangzhou, China.

Jay Haide instruments are now sold in Japan, Great Britain, Australia, Canada and throughout the E.U.

The Jay Haide workshop is organized very much like the great 19 century workshops in Mirecourt, France. In these workshops, individual craftsmen specialised in making a particular part or completing a particular process of the instrument, for example making the top, making the neck, bending ribs or the process of varnishing. Jay Haide also have a collection of old Italian and rare instruments in which to take inspiration and ideas.