Violin Maker's Notebook: A Companion Volume to: Useful Measurements for Violin Makers A Reference for Shop Use

Strobel, Henry A.

ISBN 10: 0962067334 / ISBN 13: 9780962067334

Published by Henry Strobel, Violin Maker & Publisher, Aumsville, OR, 1996

About this Item

Gift quality copy! Immaculate and tight. 74pp., including notes.

Seller Inventory # SB5461

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Violin Maker's Notebook: A Companion Volume to: Useful Measurements for Violin Makers A Reference for Shop Use
• Publisher: Henry Strobel, Violin Maker & Publisher, Aumsville, OR
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962067334
• ISBN 13: 9780962067334
• Binding: Stapled Wraps
• Illustrator: Photographs/Diagrams/Charts
• Edition: Third Expanded Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music
  • Crafts & Hobbies

About this title

Synopsis

A shop reference manual. Chapters on bow rehairing and repairing. Repairing and retouching cracks in instruments. Workshop safety. Instrument photography. Musical intervals. Photo-illustrated. Orientation, guidelines, and annotated bibliography for the connoisseur. Now contains an illustrated chapter showing the repair of a fine violin smashed in a car crash.

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.