Today Andreas Petermann, violinist for the Vallesanta Corde quartet, came to my workshop to see me. He tried my last violin, built on the Stradivari model (the Cremonese), before I painted it.Thanks Andreas, I was very pleased with your passionate and enthusiastic playing, which never fails to surprise me.
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The precious woods that are used for the construction of the chinrest are boxwood (box shrubs are evergreen Mediterranean plants), very hard and yellowish in color, ebony (from Malaysia, India, Indochina and Africa), black, hard and heavy to the point of not being able to float. There’s also varieties of ebony with dark brown grain, … Continue reading The making of a chinrest