The other cello is a shop cello whose construction was supervised by a famous maker named Farotti in his last years. The apprentice who built her remarkably enough had a prosthetic hand. Farotti was famous for making instruments with extra thin internal edges and extra thick middles which acts just like a stereo speaker and vibrates more than standard Strad plates. I think the maker did a good job. We must not pre judge a seeming handicap, afterall Beethoven was profoundly deaf when he wrote the 9th.