Violin maker

A violin maker is a Artisan which manufactures, repairs and restores the musical instruments with cords rubbed pinches or such as the Violon S, viola S, Violoncelle S, Violas d'amore, Guitare S, etc the term derives from Luth.

Introduction

The art of these professionals starts with the choice of wood employed, determining for the sound quality and especially the esthetics of the instrument, and continues with the manufacture of the instrument itself, artisanal phase mainly . A whole range of tools specific to the trade is used to work the parts which compose the instrument - as example, for the violin, there are approximately 80 of them - to assemble and to stick them. The violin maker also has a role of maintenance of the instruments and bows, of repair even of restoration of the instrumental inheritance.

The numerical violin maker also made his appearance since the Années 1970. By this name, the violin maker (manufacturer of sound) returns towards the original definition of the stringed-instrument trade: the manufacture of the amazing one. Consequently, it is a question of using in contemporary composition (or of mixing with traditional instruments) instruments appeared with the electronic era: Box at rates/rhythms, Scratch, Vocoder and other sampler. Some also call “violin maker”, by abuse language, a factor of Cornemuse S, and by extension, of the factor of instruments of traditional Musique.

String instruments rubbed

History

In France, the great historical centres of traditional stringed-instrument trade are Mirecourt, Paris, Lyon and some other cities.

The school of Casement bolt

It is of use to personify the invention of the violin, the viola and the violoncello by Andrea Amati (1511 - 1580). This use, if it is probable that it reduces the image which one can have of the history of the stringed-instrument trade, is not without justification: it should be known that Andrea, through the formation of its sons, and until Niccolò Amati, gives rise to a quasi dynasty, that of the violin makers of Casement bolt. Indeed, the workshop of Niccolò Amati will see following one another of the pupils as famous as Antonio Stradivarius (1644 - 1737), Jakobus Stainer (1621 - 1683) or Andrea Guarneri (1626 - 1698).

Some important violin makers

  • In France:
    • Jean Bauer (1914-2005)
    • Louis Guersan (1713-1781)
    • Jean Henri Naderman
    • Jean Baptist Vuillaume
    • Etienne Vatelot
    • Gaspar Tieffenbrucker (1514-1571) in tète of an important dynasty of violin makers, born with Füssen and died in Lyon.
    • the Medard families, Lupot, Jacquot, Pajot (Pageot), Ghent, Bernadel

  • In England:

    • the family Hill, Dodd,

  • In Germany, Austria, Switzerland:

    • Jakobus Stainer
    • David Tecchler (1666 Salzburg - 1748 Rome)
    • , the Hornsteiner families, Hopf, Meinel, Neuner, Dörffel, Fichtel, Pfretschner

  • In the Netherlands:

    • Hendrik Jacobs (1629-1704)
    • Pieter Rombouts (1667-1740)
    • the family members Cuypers (Kuypers) with the 18ie and 19ie century.

  • In Italy before 1800:

    • the family Matted
    • Gasparo da Salò (1540-1609)
    • Giovanni Paolo Maggini (1580-1632)
    • Francesco Ruggieri (c.1630-1698)
    • Antonio Stradivari (c.1644-1637)
    • Giambattista Rogeri (1650-1730) and Pietro Giacomo Rogeri
    • (1686-1750)
    • (1744-1816)
    • (1777-1854)
    • the families Testore, Guarneri, Guadagnini, Gagliano…

  • In Italy after 1800:

    • (1864-1946)
    • Stefano Scarampella

  • In Italy after 1900:

    • Ansaldo Poggi (1893-1984)
    • (1956-)
    • (1909-1991)
    • (1894-1982)

  • As a Czech Republic:

    • Johann Kulik
    • Karel Vavra (1… - 1973)
    • Premysl Otakar Ŝpidlen (1896-1958)

String instruments pinches

Instuments with cords pinches sont : the Toothing-stone, the Guitar and Harpsichord, etc

Some violin makers

Others

  • the film a heart in winter of Claude Sautet is held in the medium of the stringed-instrument trade.
  • to maintain and clean the String instruments, the violin makers generally use a product called Popote.

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