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The Silakowski Five-String Project
For more on the history of the rise of the five string fiddle, see Daryl Anger’s excellent 2010 Strings Magazine Article After Silakowski’s death, Brandon...
The Unicursal Fiddle
this fiddle is the second in a series exploring the sources of variety that we see in violins. A broader discussion of the ideas behind...
Twisted! An Unresolved Tale
Un-Natural. Playing the violin in the conventional manner requires some rather un-natural contortions. The left elbow is held more or less directly below the violin...
A Bent-Top Parlor Guitar
I wanted a guitar that played like an electric, but one that I didn’t have to plug into an amplifier to hear. What I enjoy...
The Turing Fiddle
I made this fiddle as the first of a series to explore the sources of variety that we see in violins. I’m also thinking about...
The Spice of Life. Variety, Violins and the Digital Age
This post is about variety in violins, why it is important, where it come from, and how it has been influenced by mechanization. I will...