All luthier articles – Page 3

  • sternvatelot
    Article

    French violin expert Étienne Vatelot dies aged 87

    14 July 2013

    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, ...

  • bow_maker
    Debate

    Embrace the difference

    30 June 2013

    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

  • scrollavezza1
    Article

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

    19 June 2013

    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 of ...