Violin Making, Second Edition Revised and Expanded

Author: Bruce Ossman
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607653915
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Author and lifelong teacher Bruce Ossman uses his simple techniques and clear instruction to guide you through every single step of making a violin. With a complete list of tools, full-size patterns, detailed illustrations, and templates for every piece all included, you'll craft an instrument fit for an orchestra.

Violin-Making

Author: Edward Heron-Allen
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486317714
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
This classic guide offers an accessible initiation into the mysteries of violin-making. Charming in its style and cultivated in its research, it covers every detail of the process and includes a fascinating history of the instrument. More than 200 diagrams, engravings, and photographs complement the text.

The Art of Violin Making

Author: Chris Johnson
Publisher: Robert Hale
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
The Art of Violin Making is the major work for the craftsman, bringing into one volume a summary of essential information for the violin maker and player, as well as providing a historical reference. This book is essential reading for the violin maker, repairer and historian, providing a unique record of the history, social background, lives and work of the great violin makers of the past, combined with a clear practical guide to making violins. It includes: "Part One: The Violin Makers," "Part Two: The Workshop, Tools and Materials," and "Part Three: Violin Construction."

Useful Measurements for Violin Makers

Author: Henry A. Strobel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962067310
Category : Violin
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Violin Making

Author: Bruce Ossman
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 9781565230910
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Book Description
If you have always wanted to build your own violin but felt intimidated by the obscure language and unfamiliar techniques of violinmaking, this book offers a welcome relief. Bruce Ossman has refined and simplified the violin-making process for the modern craftsperson. An experienced teacher, Bruce leaves no detail to the imagination as he guides you through every single step of crafting a violin from start to finish.

Viola Making

Author: Henry A. Strobel
Publisher: Henry a Strobel
ISBN: 9780962067396
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument

Author: David Schoenbaum
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039308440X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 753

Book Description
Traces the history of the instrument, from its first appearance in the mid-sixteenth century to its modern use by artists, writers, and Hollywood and discusses how the affordable, portable instrument can be used to play Beethoven, jazz, and indie rock.

The Contemporary Violin

Author: Patricia Strange
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461664101
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
Written by a composer and a musician, The Contemporary Violin offers a unique menu of avant-garde musical possibilities that both performers and composers will enjoy exploring. Allen and Patricia Strange's comprehensive study critically examines extended performance techniques found in the violin literature of the latter half of the twentieth century. Drawing from both published and private manuscripts, the authors present extended performance options for the acoustic, modified, electric, and MIDI violin, with signal processing and computer-related techniques, and include more than 400 notated examples. The authors begin with bowing techniques and proceed systematically through other aspects of string playing, including MIDI technologies. Their correspondence and research with many performers and composers, the book's extensive score and text bibliography, and the discography of more than 130 recordings make The Contemporary Violin a valuable contemporary music reference and guide. An additional benefit is its listing of Internet resources that will keep the reader up to date with recent developments in contemporary performance and composition. First published by UC Press, 2001.

The Secrets of Stradivari

Author: Simone F. Sacconi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bowed stringed instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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The Art of Steampunk

Author: Art Donovan
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607650576
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
As presented by Oxford University's Museum of the History of Science, Steampunk is rooted inthe aestetics of Victorian technology. Yet it is not a nostalgic recreation of a vanished past: its deveices are both imaginative and contemporary. The Steampunk exhibition, curated by Art Donovan, revealed the many possible responses to Steampunk's characteristics preoccupation with the historical and the contemporary, the mechanical and the fanciful. In imagining a Victorian future that has not come to pass, Steampunk artists cast an oblique light ont he present. But their unrealized "futures" are more celebration than commentary. Steampunk revels in the ingenuity and absurdity of the mechanisms produced and the unqualified pleasure increation. It is only fitting that the world's first museum exhibition of genuine Steampunk art premiered at the Oxford University Museum of the History of Science, which houses the world's greatest collection of important scientific artifacts and devices. The popular Steampunk exhibition ran from October 2009 to February 2010, featured the work of 18 international Steampunk artists, and drew more than 70,000 visitors to the museum.