All Lutherie articles – Page 2
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Premium ❘ FeatureBending the rules: arching constructions
How can luthiers create an instrument’s arching from scratch? Sebastian Gonzalez presents a possible solution to an age-old dilemma, using simple formulas and the latest technology
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Premium ❘ FeatureDiscovering a Stradivari and Guarneri - From the archive: January 1896
John Tiplady Carrodus died in 1895. Violin dealer David Laurie recalls how he discovered a Stradivari and Guarneri that he sold to the renowned violinist
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Jordan Lambert’s Tahiti workshop
The luthier presents his shop in ’Ātihā, Mo’orea
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Premium ❘ FocusAuction Report January 2026: Lights in the darkness
A brace of Gaglianos and a cavalcade of Sartory bows were among the highlights of London’s October sales, as Kevin MacDonald reports
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Extending the reach of metal F-clamps
Making wooden jaws for a lighter, safer long-reach clamping alternative
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Focus‘The closest thing to the human voice’: violinist Stella Chen on her Strads
Our January 2026 cover star discusses the Stradivari violins she has played throughout her career
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: 1821 violin by Carl Nicolaus Sawicki
Wolfhart Schuster examines an instrument by the Polish maker
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: How to make a big-sounding viola for smaller players
Maj-Lisa Herzberg presents her innovative solution to the question of how to build a big-sounding viola for a small person
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Blogs‘Create what you are called to create’: catching up with Anne Harris and Amanda Ewing on their commissioned collaboration
The Strad catches up with Anne Harris and Amanda Ewing on their player/luthier collaboration that resulted in the first instrument commission between two African American women
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NewsObituary: violin maker Andrew Fairfax (1953–2025)
John Dilworth pays tribute to the British luthier, restorer and expert, who died on 9 December
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2026: 2019 Octobass
Standing 11 feet 8 inches tall, the instrument was built by luthier Jean-Jacques Pagès and is now played by Eric Chappell of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra
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NewsJapanese lutherie students to honour violin maker and mentor
Shinichi Izutsu, who enters his tenth decade next year, has run his own workshop since 1956
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: how to care for your bow hair
Musicians might not realise how important the quality and condition of their bow hair can be. Canisa Sie gives a guide to caring for this vital part of a string player’s arsenal
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2026: 1712 ‘Viotti, Hottinger’ Antonio Stradivari violin
’The noble beauty of its tone seems to us to echo the elevated style of Viotti’s compositions’ said the Hills of this violin
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NewsFate of pernambuco bows decided at CITES conference
Discussions on the proposal by the Brazilian government to move the wood up to CITES Appendix I have concluded at the global environment summit in Samarkand
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Premium ❘ FeatureA master of his craft: Simone Fernando Sacconi
Born 130 years ago, Simone Fernando Sacconi was a brilliant violin maker and restorer, a respected teacher and, latterly, a celebrated author. Friends, colleagues and former students share their memories with Peter Somerford
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Glyn Jones’s Bala workshop
The luthier presents his shop, located in North Wales
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2026: 1767 Nicolò Gagliano cello
Formerly owned by Roger Smith of the Gagliano Trio, this fine example of Gagliano’s work is now played by Thomas Mesa
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BlogsUniting luthiers, bow makers and players: Klanggestalten in Berlin 2025
Carlos María Solare reports back from Klanggestalten in Berlin, held from 31 October to 2 November 2025, where highlights included the Signum Quartet performing on different combinations of new instruments and bows
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Cutting the f-holes
The traditional method adopted by the luthiers of the old Mirecourt school
