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We Made the Cover of 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...
The Redwood Violin
On January 1st this year I effectively quit my violinmaking day job and devoted myself fulltime to the Redwood Violin Project. The idea was to...
Cellular Fiddles – Part 3. Finished and Compared
Carving the plates Carving the plates for the X and O fiddles was fairly straight forward. The basic design of the plates is “strong in...
Violin plate locating pins – An attractive anachronism
A nice feature of classic period Cremonese instruments are the locating pins found on or near the center line of the back close to the...
Turtle fiddle sound comparison
When I presented the first two unusual fiddles on social media people naturally wanted to know how they sound. Here they are compared to two...
Interview with Laurie Niles of violinist.com
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...