Art & Method of the Violin Maker: Principles and Practices (Book Four of the Strobel Series for Violin Makers)

Strobel, Henry A.

ISBN 10: 0962067350 / ISBN 13: 9780962067358

Published by Henry a Strobel, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Art & Method of the Violin Maker: Principles and Practices (Book Four of the Strobel Series for Violin Makers)
• Publisher: Henry a Strobel
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962067350
• ISBN 13: 9780962067358
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Selected violin design topics: The violin's outline, scroll, geometry, esthetics. Wood: species, selection, figure, cut, and orientation. Making: mold types, antique and modern methods. Ribs, corners, graduation, barring, selected repairs. Creativity and copying, fads and fundamentals. Illustrated with over 70 photographs and diagrams. For the violin maker, repairer, and connoisseur. The Strobel books for violin makers are professional, concise, and convenient, reflecting traditional, conservative, and artistic work. Some forty thousand sold, they are used internationally by student, amateur and professional makers in shops and schools, and referred to by manufacturers, sellers, users, and lovers of bowed instruments. High quality 8.5 by 11 in. paperbacks made to lie flat and last on your workbench.

About the Author

Henry Strobel is the author-publisher of seven books on violin, viola, and cello making, repair, and adjustment, which are used worldwide. He recently published a video Watch Me Make a Cello, Step by Step. Born in Indiana in 1936, he had a first career as an electronic design engineer, and was one of the founders of Digital Telephone Systems, Inc. in California, which manufactured transmission and switching equipment. He served in the US Air Force service in Scotland as a communications officer. He studied violin as a schoolboy, made his first over thirty years ago, and has had his own violin business for twenty years, fifteen at his current full service violin shop in Oregon, where, with his wife and sons, he also makes violins, violas, and cellos, and writes books.