My interest in violin making first took hold when I met my wife (a violinist and violist) in college. After a dozen years as a civil engineer and eight years working part time in the family’s violin
STRINGS August/Sept. 2006 NO. 141 P.62~67 The lecture hall is in the Library of Con¬gress in Washington, D.C. The attendees are members of the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers, master cra
Since 1989, Cedar Strings has become the leading Musical Instrument workshop in Chain Beijing. Providing second to none service to our customers, we have a wide variety of instruments, violins,
Since 1976, Bein & Fushi has taken its place as the world’s premier dealer and restorer by establishing a firm in the tradition of the greatest shops of the past. At Bein & Fushi, the pulse
Our location in Batavia (on the border of Batavia and West Chicago), has 3,000 square feet that houses our inventory of Instruments and Bows, our Workshop (where we Repair, Restore and Make Instrument
Russell Wagner began his forty-one year relationship with the cello in the Lexington, KY public school music program with Joseph Pival. Through the dedicated effort of teachers Rodney Farrar, Lyle Wol
Our Montgomery, IL location (on the southern border of Aurora, about 40 miles due west of Chicago), has 3,000 square feet that houses our inventory of Instruments and Bows, our Workshop (where we Repa
Ryan McLaughlin has been working on instruments since he started playing bass guitar at age 14. He went on to play double-bass, eventually attending the Brevard Music Festival as a bassist when he was
Born into a musical family, Chunyee Lu, began the study of violin at six years of age, first under his father, a violinist of Shanghai Philharmonic. Later under Professor Li Ke Chiang, a professor of
My interest in stringed instruments of the violin family began in the sixth grade, when I took up the cello and found myself more interested in the instrument itself than in playing it. At that time I
As one of the oldest violin dealerships in the United States, our goal is to provide a level of service and expertise beyond that available in shops of lesser experience.
Our beginnings in 1926 grew o
Augustino began his violinmaking education in Chicago at the Kenneth Warren & Son School of Violinmaking and in restoration and repair at Bein & Fushi, Inc. under the guidance of William Webst
