Maintaining your violin is crucial for preserving its integrity and ensuring years of beautiful music-making. Here are five essential tips to help you keep your instrument in top condition

Contemporary makers have access to a catalogue of knowledge unique to our modern age.Even though we practice a craft that has changed very little over the past 400 years we are equally blessed by how easy access we have to a huge amount of research on the works of the old masters that are being conducted every day by other makers, scientists and other experts within the field.

Making a violin from wood to varnishing