Off Beat
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...
Cellular fiddles Part 2: X’s and O’s
In part 1, I described a plan to make a pair of violins with structural features that I think will have effects on the way...
Cellular Fiddles Part 1: Braces, Modes and the Possibilities of Shaping Sound
The idea of “Cellular Fiddles” has evolved out of two earlier projects. The Dimpled Viola made a feature of some of the visually interesting rough...
Turtle Fiddle
This is a follow up to the Dimpled Viola project and develops some of the ideas sparked by that project. With the viola I made...
