Off Beat The Tabolin. Part1. ConceptMay 22, 2021Ideas and inspirations, Off-Beat Violins, Violin MakingFollowing on from earlier experimental fiddles I’ve been thinking of making a violin with very thin areas or cells in the upper and lower bouts....Cellular Fiddles – Part 3. Finished and ComparedFebruary 16, 2021Instruments, Off-Beat ViolinsCarving the plates Carving the plates for the X and O fiddles was fairly straight forward. The basic design of the plates is “strong in...The O-FiddleFebruary 12, 2021The X-FiddleFebruary 12, 2021Turtle fiddle sound comparisonOctober 14, 2020Instruments, Off-Beat Violins, Videos, Viola, ViolinWhen 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.comOctober 4, 2020Media, News, Off-Beat Violins 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... 123…56Next
The Tabolin. Part1. ConceptMay 22, 2021Ideas and inspirations, Off-Beat Violins, Violin MakingFollowing on from earlier experimental fiddles I’ve been thinking of making a violin with very thin areas or cells in the upper and lower bouts....
Cellular Fiddles – Part 3. Finished and ComparedFebruary 16, 2021Instruments, Off-Beat ViolinsCarving the plates Carving the plates for the X and O fiddles was fairly straight forward. The basic design of the plates is “strong in...
Turtle fiddle sound comparisonOctober 14, 2020Instruments, Off-Beat Violins, Videos, Viola, ViolinWhen 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.comOctober 4, 2020Media, News, Off-Beat Violins 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...