All Technical articles – Page 14
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Making and using a simple collar for self-centring
A useful tool for bow makers, enabling octagonal sections to be accurately centred in a three-jaw lathe chuck
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Thinking outside the soundbox
What effect do elements such as the bass-bar and neck heel have on an instrument’s sound quality? Jan Špidlen made an experimental violin, with a number of adjustable features, to find out
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NewsGuarneri ‘filius Andreae’ cello goes on display in Cremona
The 1692 instrument is owned by the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan
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Premium ❘ ArticleSoundpost: Letters to the Editor August 2020
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: August 2020 issue
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Small tools, big help
A number of labour-saving devices designed to make life easier at the workbench
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Beauty and the bridge
The acoustic role of the violin bridge is well known, but what about the aesthetic choices that luthiers make when carving them? John Beames gives a detailed analysis of a favourite bridge to elucidate the process
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Premium ❘ FeatureLutherie Collectives: The Wisdom of Crowds
Violin making is traditionally a solitary career, so why are so many luthiers and bow makers choosing to join collectives? Peter Somerford talks to the founders and members of such groups around the world to discover the benefits of pooling resources, knowledge and time
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VideoCremona Mondomusica trade fair confirmed for 2020
The event for stringed instrument players, makers and dealers will take place from 25 to 27 September
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NewsNew software allows users to recreate the sound of a Stradivarius
Native Instruments’ ‘Stradivari Violin’ uses tones captured at Cremona’s Museo del Violino in January 2019
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NewsLuthier creates tiny playable violins during lockdown
Bavarian violin maker Maria Sandner’s creations can be just 10cm long
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Designing a bridge for a violin with distorted arching
A solution to a common problem in antique instruments
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: In praise of cypress
The wood of the cypress tree can seem like an unusual alternative for spruce, but both its figure and relative density make it a desirable option. Alan Beavitt explains why he has used it for several instruments
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Lengthening a violin neck
An alternative to performing a neck graft, without the need for making a replacement
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Pearls of wisdom
One of the most mysterious parts of bow making is the production of mother-of-pearl slides and eyes. John Matthews provides a guide to the process, and explains why ormer is the best shell to use
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Premium ❘ FeatureUnvarnished Instruments: Team Building
For luthiers, finely sourced white instruments may well be the perfect accessory – offering the double opportunity for varnishing practice and to sell less expensive models to students and those with shallower pockets. But, writes Peter Somerford, the issues of provenance and labelling are of utmost importance when marketing such ...
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ArticleConverting an instrument to Baroque set-up
Sarah Peck demystifies the process of (re)converting an instrument for Baroque playing - and focuses on the neck in this extract from the May 2020 issue
