Category Archives: Violins General

A view of the vendor hall — I’m somewhere off to the right and behind with a new 16-3/8″ viola. Here’s violist Elias Goldstein giving it a try in Warner Hall at the Oberlin Conservatory.

It is Spring and it is Easter.  A good time to write about beginnings. This blog has been silent for many months. Since making my first violin a little over a year ago, the majority of my woodworking time has gone … Continue reading →

The idea for producing musical sounds using a bow fitted with horsehair is thought to go back at least a thousand years to the nomadic horse cultures of Central Asia, while the modern violin bow was perfected in the mid-to-late … Continue reading →