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In New York at the Lincoln Centre in the Bruno Walter Auditorium there will be an exhibition of contemporary violins, violas, cellos and bows. Sunday, March 18th, from 1pm to 5:30pm. I look forward to show a violin copy of the 'Dushkin' Guarneri Del Gesu.
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...
This June our workshop shall be closed from June 17th and opening again on June 27th. My assistant is enjoying a summer holiday in Europe. Meanwhile I'm traveling to Oberlin College in Ohio for a violin making workshop. The VSA/Oberlin Violinmaker’s Workshop is a...
This month the English magazine 'The Strad' published an article on my workshop. In each issue they have a 'my space' section which shows the workshops of violin makers from around the world. The main photo below is my main bench surrounded by the tools I use...
The January exhibition of Canadian violin and bow makers in Toronto was a great success. With over 35 violin and bow makers from around Canada attending and showing their work. Some of the makers had never shown their instruments and bows in Toronto before. So it was...
While traveling around Canada for business I sometimes travel by train which I enjoy very much. It's relaxed and comfortable and I usually finish some paperwork or write a blogpost on the train! But if I need to bring a cello with me, I'm unable bring it on board...