A Guide to Violin Makers
By Richard Romando
There are countless violin manufacturers around the world. From large scale manufacturers who employ several people with different specialties to make many violins a day to artisans and trained violin makers who painstakingly created their instruments one at a time, there is a wide variety of violin manufacturers to choose from.
Violin making is a complicated process. It takes someone with great skill to make violins that not only look great but have excellent sound quality as well. Violin makers usually start by drawing the violin's design and making a metallic template of what it will look like. They then use the template to create a mould. The mould is a wooden structure shaped like a violin. The violinmaker...
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