Definition Films is a young video production company in Santa Rosa. About five years ago the founder, Justin Liddell, asked if they could film me building a violin. They collected hours of video over 17 days of shooting....and then everything went quiet. Despite the...
Strad Magazine (March 2023) published an article on my Off-Beat Violins There's some online companion material , and the full online feature for subscribers
There’s a great feature on Mia Pixley and her Ripple cello in this months Strings Magazine. This project was so much fun…..and it’s still making waves! To read the full article you'll have to subscribe to Strings
This is so gratifying! Thanks to every one who has been involved, this is far from a solo effort. You can get a digital version of the Strings story. Also read more about the project on The Redwood Violin Website Earlier Press The project also received local press...
Longtime violin-maker Andrew Carruthers has struck on an idea: that perhaps new violins can be inspired by something other than old violins.
Not that the San Francisco Bay-area luthier has any problem with old violins — he’s studied the great masters and reveres their work. In fact, he’s made hundreds of stringed instruments based on Guarneri del Gesùs, Stradivaris, Montaganas and more.
But these days he also has been looking to nature, geometry, architecture for inspiration in his instrument-making.
Here's a short video In which I reveal some of the lesser known secrets of The Old Master
I was honored to have the local paper come by and do a feature on me and my work. I think that I can now officially claim to have a "Lifestyle Business". You can read the the story online. Coincidentally they ran a story about Mira Stenger, my step daughter , in...
Here's a little piece about plate carving that I wrote for Strings Magazine. Luthier Andrew Carruthers on the Heart & Soul of Violin Making JANUARY 3, 2019 What’s your favorite part of the process of making an instrument? For me, carving the back and top plates...
Video sketches of a work in progress by composer, sound sculptor, Hugh Livingston. This is NOT your usual take on violin making.
I met Greg Olwell, a senior editor at Strings Magazine, at the 2014 Violin Society of America convention Indianapolis. He had an idea for a new magazine spot called "Tales of the trade" which would put "a spotlight the trade and the people involved in the art of the...