Over the past 25 years I have tried a number of different endpin and endpin spikes while making cellos. Mostly carbon fibre and steel spikes. We also see clients using a range of different endpins on their cellos. Most of these are made in Germany, Japan and the US....
This Sunday afternoon I had the pleasure to listen to Dale Yoonho Jeong perform as soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Roy Thompson Hall. He was the 2017 winner of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition. He performed a selection from...
In the fall I was kindly invited to Maine, in the US, to work with 7 other violin makers at a beautiful seaside cottage for a week. We each worked on our own violins and violas and of course shared ideas on our current work. With such a small group it allowed people...
On my trip to Taiwan in July, I visited the Chimei Museum in the southern city of Tainan. It houses a mixture of art, natural history and musical instruments. The museum was first established 1992 and since 2014 has been located within a large park with extensive...
After returning from two busy weeks of violin making in Oberlin, Ohio and working for a week in my Ottawa workshop, we shall close again for one week. During this time I will be traveling to Taiwan to visit the ChiMei Museum. It has a large collection of fine old...
