I decided to concentrate on my profession as a Violin Maker and spend more time in the workshop doing what I do best: manufacturing, restoring,repairing and improving the sound and playability of bowed stringed instruments— simply being a professional craftsman.
My Shop will be, by appointment only for Sales, Quotes and Repairs from the 1st of June 2011. Please call 1800 88 2468 or contact me via my form.
Have a look at this beautiful Violin. The ¨Studio Violin¨ is a line of violins, custom build, sound improved and varnished here in my Brisbane/Woolloongabba Workshop. Its performance and beauty will exceed your expectation. Please call me today on PH 1800 88 2468 or visit my shop for more information or for trial playing it here in my Brisbane Violin shop at 20 Logan Rd, Woolloongabba , QLD 4102
My shop hours are usually Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 2.30pm. Please do always check for updates on the hours here in my blog.
Too much Rosin?
If you are playing for 1/2 an hour every day you only need to rosin your bow once a week.
If you use too much rosin on your bow all it will do is make your instrument and strings more dirty with rosin dust, as well as create a scratchy sound and will give you a hissing noise when using the full length of the bow. How can you check if you are using too much rosin: Just flick through the bow hair with your thumb and if there is a big cloud of dust coming out so you are forced to take a step back to breathe, that is definitely too much rosin. Don´t use any for a few weeks. If there is only a very small cloud coming out, that should be right then.
So please only rosin your bow once a week if you are playing 1/2 an hour a day or if you are playing one hour a day, rosin it twice a week etc.
I will not be available for appointments this coming week(18th – 23rd of July). Please go to my contact page and send me an email so we can make an appointment for the week starting on the 25th of July 2011.
The 1721 ‘Lady Blunt’, one of the best-preserved Stradivari violins in existence, was sold yesterday in a Tarisio online auction for £9.8m ($15.9m). The figure, which includes the buyer’s premium (the hammer price was £8,750,000), is over four times the previous auction record for a Stradivari violin. The buyer was an anonymous bidder who won a 90-minute bidding battle with one other bidder.
Lady Blunt Stradivari Violin
All the proceeds from the sale will go to the Nippon Foundation’s Northeastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund. Kazuko Shiomi, president of the Nippon Music Foundation, which put the ‘Lady Blunt’, one of the treasures of its stringed instrument collection, up for sale, said: ‘While this violin was very important to our collection, the needs of our fellow Japanese people after the March 11 tragedy have proven that we all need to help, in any way we can. The donation will be put to immediate use on the ground in Japan.
Many professional musicians develop shoulder problems, tight muscles in back, arms and neck, as a result of a poor setup; as well as any kind of intonation issues and buzzes, noises etc can be set-up related.
I have been specially trained overseas for 4 years at Geigenbau Machold or what they are now called´Machold Rare Violins´ to setup and restore instruments for performance on the highest level.
Combined with my 28 years of professional experience, I have been serving you the best and most professional, here in Brisbane, when it comes to sound improvement, restoration, repairs, setup or advise about any other violin related matters.
Reasons for muscle tightness and other pains which are instrument related:
The Brown Jazzer Double Bass is now available. With a solid spruce top, a beautiful chestnut brown varnish, the famous “Ilja Grawert Deluxe setup” and Thomastik Spirocore light strings it is one of the best sounding and easiest playing basses around for only $ 2695.
This is another successful restoration by Ilja Grawert Master Violin Maker
I hope that the beautiful leather case will be restored in the future.
The bow was not worth restoring.
Over the last 28 years I have been collecting a number of very nice French, English and German bows. They are valued between AU$2000 – 8000. If you are looking for a high quality bow please contact me on 1800 88 2468 or email me via my contact form.
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