Lutherie – Page 11
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Photogrammetry to produce casts
Guy Harrison describes the process of using photogrammetry – the extraction of 3D information from photographs – to produce casts of instrument archings
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FocusOn the trail of a 1708 Stradivari: J.T. Carrodus and a mystery violin
In an addendum to his article in the June 2023 issue, Gennady Fillimonov uncovers how a 1708 Stradivari violin was mistaken for a cello, and other sundry observations
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Premium ❘ FeatureA mystery collector: On the trail of a Russian nobleman
Gennady Filimonov investigates a mysterious collector known in many publications as ‘a Russian nobleman’
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NewsKnow Your Bow: New online resource for owners and users of pernambuco bows
The guide contains basic facts on pernambuco and information on its conservation and sustainability efforts to help demystify usage of the threatened species
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: An 1856 Giuseppe Rocca violin
David Bonesy examines a violin based on the ‘Alard’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Replicating peg shapes without a copying lathe
A device for maintaining the same shape and diameter of instrument pegs during the carving process
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FocusSmall wonders: Building bridges
John Dilworth pontificates on bridges in this article from September 2013
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: An 1819 David Stirrat violin
David Rattray examines an instrument by the Edinburgh maker
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FocusSmall wonders: The soundpost
For John Dilworth, an instrument’s heart and soul lie in one tiny piece of spruce
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Premium ❘ ArticleAuction Report June 2023: The Rosenberg Collection
The collection of London-based dealer Norman Rosenberg provided a boost in interest and activity at London’s spring sales, as Kevin MacDonald reports
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1660 Jacob Stainer viola
Bradley Strauchen-Scherer takes a closer look at a viola from one of the most important makers of the violin family
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Repairing a broken bow head
A less invasive and more reversible version of a well-known repair method
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FocusSmall wonders: The tailgut
How gut, steel, nylon and now parachute cord have brought change to the luthier’s craft
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Premium ❘ FocusBow maker James Tubbs - From the archive: June 1913
Towry Piper gives an account of the life and work of London bow maker James Tubbs (below), still going strong at the age of 78
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: a 1902 Enrico Rocca violin
Alberto Giordano examines a violin from maker with an interesting past
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Violin playing is important in Cypriot culture’ - My Space: Michalis Pantelides
The Cypriot violin maker takes us round his well-appointed workshop in the capital, Nicosia
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FocusSmall wonders: The linseed
For John Dilworth, the humble grain’s oil can enrobe a violin’s bare wood and flaunt its rippling curves
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Premium ❘ FeaturePlate archings and tone: Room to breathe
Nigel Harris presents evidence, theoretical and experimental, regarding the ‘breathing action’ of the plates
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A c.1718 Daniel Parker violin
John Dilworth takes a closer look at a violin by the English maker
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1894 violin by Gaetano Antoniazzi
Sean Bishop looks at a violin by one of modern Italian lutherie’s pioneers