The Instrument Makers BBC radio4BBC radio 4 documentary

The Instrument Makers

10.2.2016

Musical instrument making is a vibrant craft industry in Britain today. The great cellist Raphael Wallfisch plays a cello by Andreas Hudelmayer of Clerkenwell…

 

If you don’t live in the UK and therefore can’t play the radio programme from the BBC website you can listen to it here

 

On 13 May 2017 the Financial Times published this article featuring me

 

In October 2015 The Amati Magazine wrote a feature about my workshop

 

 

 

 

Articles I’ve written for The Strad

Hold on tight The Strad, November 2001, A technical article on a method of using a particular type of clamp to repair cracks

 

 

 

 

 

Analyse this, The Strad November 2008, A report from the specialist acoustics workshop at Oberlin College, Ohio

 

 

 

 

Tales of Wine and Wood A ‘postcard’ from a summer lutherie workshop in rural France

 

 

 

 

Articles written about me

My Space – The Strad, June 2007 My workshop, and the things that mean a lot to me inside it

 

 

 

 

Double Act – The Strad, May 2010 My wife and I on how we met, daily life and Guarneri-style floorboards

 

 

 

 

Dual Approach – Classical Music, March 2003  Jessica Duchen visits my workshop

 

 

 

 

Schoen feature

Feature in Schön! Magazine

 

 

 

 

Paris double-blind test
Soloist evaluation of six Old Italian and six new violins

 

 

 

 

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