All Lutherie articles – Page 22
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Repairing a bow thumb groove with epoxy and modelling clay
A non-invasive method for a fairly common task in bow restoration
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1957 cello by Sesto Rocchi
Alberto Giordano examines the 20th-century Italian instrument
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Premium ❘ FeatureHow did Cremonese luthiers use consistent measurements?
Simone Zopf argues that there was in fact a single unit of measurement from which most of the rest can be derived
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News‘Earliest stringed instruments’ found in Vietnam
Researchers from the Australian National University believe that 2,000-year-old deer antlers may have been used as primitive chordophones
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FocusCremonese measurements: the use of the Roman oncia
Video showing how an instrument outline can be created using just one measurement and a set of concentric circles
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: The curious nature of 'Off-Beat Violins'
Andrew Carruthers presents the results of his Covid-19 lockdown project, the ‘Off-Beat Violins’ – a synthesis of art, music and the forms of the natural world
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ArticleMaking Matters: Off-Beat Violins
Luthier Andrew Carruthers demonstrates the sound quality of his ’X’ and ‘O’ violins, the ‘Tabolin’ and the ‘Ripple cello’
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FocusMusical groundbreakers: female luthiers and their experiences in the lutherie industry
In the past few years, women from all walks of life have been reporting incidents of sexist behaviour in their workplaces. Is a violin workshop any different? Femke Colborne discusses the question with a range of female luthiers
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1689 Andrea Guarneri cello
Julian Hersh examines an instrument from one of the most important families of Italian violin makers
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Premium ❘ FeatureGirolamo Amati II violin 1671: Last but not least
Girolamo Amati II was the final violin maker of the illustrious Amati dynasty – and possibly the most overlooked. Barbara Meyer examines a 1671 violin from his early career and contrasts it with another instrument he made 48 years later
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Premium ❘ FeatureLutherie in Argentina: New world wonders
Lionnel Genovart profiles some of the best-known names in the country’s violin making history
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1933 Ansaldo Poggi violin
Roberto Regazzi examines an instrument by the Italian maker, whose fame and reputation have grown in recent years
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Focus‘The best viola of mine’ - Count Cozio’s 1773 Guadagnini viola
Alberto Giordano and Barthelemy Garnier examine the business agreement between G.B Guadagnini and Count Cozio di Salabue that allowed the luthier to create a new style of viola, in this excerpt from the January 2022 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis March 2023: Keeping ledger information in public domain
A lot at a 2022 auction caused a stir among bow researchers and enthusiasts – particularly when it was donated to a public institution to save it from private hands
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Gallery‘It felt like a Ferrari - 0 to 100 in just a few seconds’: Yuriy Bekker on his Andrea Guarneri violin
The violinist shares his experience of recording Edward Hart’s Under an Indigo Sky on the 1688 ‘ex Degen’ Andrea Guarneri violin
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1720 cello by Michele Platner
Christopher Reuning looks at an instrument which could be confused with one by Tecchler, but is actually by the other great Roman cello maker
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: A new take on an old classic
To combat the tedium of the Covid-19 lockdowns, Andrea Schudtz embarked on a project to copy a decorated Andrea Amati violin – but with a modern twist
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VideoPeter Sheppard Skærved on the ‘Pierre Rode’ Stradivari
The violinist examines the form and decoration of the master luthier’s 1722 instrument
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1679 violin by Hendrick Aerninck
Michel Samson presents the 17th-century Dutch instrument
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1759 Antonio Bagatella viola
Jens Stenz explores a Baroque viola made by a self-taught maker
