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The string instrument owner's handbook
In The String Instrument Owner's Guide, Michael Pagliaro surveys the complete \"ownership life cycle\" of bowed string instruments.A touchstone work for uninitiated and advanced players, The String Instrument Owner's Guide provides a roadmap for every step of the owning process, from selecting and buying (or renting ) to maintaining, repairing.
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Violins of hope
In his Tel Aviv workshop, full of scents of wood, varnish, and lacquer, Amnon Weinstein brings back life to violins that were abandoned or snatched from victims of the Holocaust. These violins bear on their soundboards, necks and soundholes the scars of the concentration camps or of their urgently escape from Nazi persecutors. Amnon has gathered 105 violins and a few cellos, which form the “Violins of Hope” collection. A kind of informal label that carries, through the greatest concert halls around the world, a memorial and universal message.
Streaming Video
This Fairport shop fine-tunes for its growth
\"The employees who work there are very well-trained to do a professional job,\" said Sandra Halleran, a member of the strings faculty at Nazareth College of Rochester, a teacher at the Hochstein School of Music and a longtime client of the firm. In 1996 the company began working with CSC Products Inc., a wholesale division of Samuel Shen Musical Instruments, a company based in Suzhou, China.
Trade Publication Article
NCC course offers no-fret way to make a guitar No-fret way to make a guitar
The college is adding new machinery -- a dust collection system, drum sander and additional 3-D printer -- and in the fall is introducing a class in \"archtop\" guitar-building, which will allow students to build a guitar similar to a Gibson ES-335. The college's Fab Lab opened in 2007 to provide the public access to fabrication technology for prototyping, educational purposes and turning ideas into a reality.
Newsletter
Luthier's Corner: Keeping the Bridge Straight - you gotta do it
[...]it's pretty common to see a bridge pulled up on one edge of the feet. First: Get the ters on and in tune. Again, the open-wound ters is the problem; it does not want to slide nicely over the top of the bridge.
Magazine Article
What I do
Talks to the luthier - a maker and repairer of stringed instruments- about his job. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Newspaper Article
A 1904 Magnus Dagestad Fiddle
The fiddle was in bad shape and needed significant repair work in order to be playable again. A number of inlay pieces were missing and the ribs were separating from the back and top plates. A small museum was opened in his home in Voss on his 85th birthday.
Magazine Article