The Leading Note Foundation
A great music program started recently in Ottawa has been the Leading Note Foundation
The program gives children from low-income communities the opportunity to learn and make music together. Lessons are provided by volunteers. Instruments have been donated by the public and violin shops. We donated a student cello and violin.
Many of the donated instruments [...]
Ottawa Violin teacher and a commission?
Visit our website at : http://www.guyharrison.com 792 Gladstone Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1R 6X9 Tel: 613 569 4803
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This week I had a parent come into the shop. She wanted to know how much she could sell her daughter’s violin for. It was poorly re-varnished, had a replacement front, and badly repaired cracks in the scroll, sides and [...]
18th Century violin case
A colleague was looking to sell this old double violin case and bought it into the workshop.
It was made for two 7/8 size violins probably around 1800 or earlier. There was no padding inside, just lined in thin blue felt. The outside was covered in leather with metal studs and fitted with a solid brass [...]