All Amos Hargrave needs to make magic is a little bit of varnish, the right piece of wood and a few lengths of instrument string. Hargrave, 51, is a luthier the term used for professional crafters of ...

Don’t mind the violins yet. There are other things to look at. A VCR and a stereo and outdated wall calendars. Concert invites dating to the early 2000s. Thank- you notes spanning just as long. An old ...

The art and craft of violin making. He scrapes it, gouges it, and sands it. He bends it, carves it, and colors it. Above all, he listens to it. (Violins playing) At 43, Zygmuntowicz is a leading maker ...

Using a gouge, Nelle O'Neill shaves wood from a violin's plates in just the right amounts. With each curl of wood, the sound of the finished product will change. "The more wood removed, the lower the ...

Originally from Poland, the North Bennet Street School department head of violin making and repair is an expert in the instrument’s craft and history As department head of violin making and repair at ...

Reproduction degree made with ice sticks and toothpicks How to make ultra miniature of violin which is too high Course movie A sophisticated miniature has a charm that attracts people's mind, but a ...

SALT LAKE CITY — It's not widely known, but a small Salt Lake City shop has been making sweet music as the oldest violin making school in the country. Since 1972, the Violin Making School has sat at ...