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News

Renowned American violin maker Luiz Bellini dies aged 79

2015-06-04T00:00:00Z

Brazilian-born US luthier Luiz Bellini died on 4 June at the age of 79. Musicians such as Yehudi Menuhin, Gidon Kremer, David Nadien, Glenn Dicterow and Berl Senofsky all owned and played Bellini instruments during their careers. Born on 25 November 1935 in SÁo Paulo, Bellini originally trained ...

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Ealing Strings director Alan Mann dies aged 71

2015-02-28T00:00:00Z

Alan Mann, co-founder of Ealing Strings music shop in London, has died aged 71. For more than four decades he attended to the instruments of string players from around the globe; regular customers based in the British capital included Gyorgy Pauk, Robert Smissen, Paul Silverthorne and Thomas Gould. ...

News

Violinist Leonidas Kavakos sues luthier for snapping $80,000 bow

2015-01-07T00:00:00Z

The artist took his bow to a violin shop in California to investigate the cause of a curvature

Blogs

Making a double bass

2014-02-11T00:00:00Z

Constructing a double bass brings with it challenges of design and method, size and sound, cost and travel – as experienced German-based British luthier Roger Hargrave found when making his first bass

Article

Swiss violin maker identifies rare Bergonzi violin

2013-11-26T00:00:00Z

A violin maker and dealer based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, has identified the only known full-size violin by Zosimo Bergonzi (1724–79). Zosimo was the son of the great Cremonese luthier Carlo Bergonzi, and the brother of Michel Angelo Bergonzi. Up until now the only evidence of Zosimo's ...

Focus

What happened at the 2013 China International Violin and Bow Making Competition

2013-10-07T00:00:00Z

With an array of experts in attendance, Beijing's international violin and bow making competition was an engrossing affair. Nancy Pellegrini hears a range of views on the industry, and China's growing position within it

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Eau de violin shop: luthier launches workplace-inspired fragrance

2013-09-08T00:00:00Z

Cremona luthier Edgar Russ has a new and unusual product sideline: perfume. The violin maker is launching a scent that he says is inspired by the aromas of a luthier's workshop. Russ's fiancée came up with the idea four years ago, and the violin maker collaborated with Guy Bouchara, a ...

Article

Newark students complete late maker's cello in two-week project

2013-07-24T00:00:00Z

In a special project to benefit the UK-based Rowan Armour-Brown (RAB) Trust, a group of students from the Newark School of Violin Making have completed an unfinished cello by Brian Laurence, who died in 2012. Laurence, who was based in Doncaster, began making the cello in 1989 when ...

Article

French violin expert Étienne Vatelot dies aged 87

2013-07-14T00:00:00Z

French violin expert and luthier Étienne Vatelot died on 13 July at the age of 87. In a career that spanned almost eight decades, he became a world-renowned expert on stringed instruments and bows, serving as president of the French Association of String Instrument and Bow Makers, ...

Debate

Embrace the difference

2013-06-30T00:00:00Z

Luthiers often have more experience than players of Baroque instruments and bows. So, says US bow maker David Hawthorne, they should be fearless in producing authentic equipment to enlighten and inform

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Luthier documentaries focus on Italian tradition and a Catalan's unusual violins

2013-06-19T00:00:00Z

Four contemporary Italian violin makers and a Catalan luthier who created violins with sympathetic strings are the subjects of two new documentaries currently in production. Parma luthier Andrea Zanrè and art historian Paolo Parmiggiani are making a film about the lives and careers of four ...