Hermann Janzen was born in 1951 in Ibirama, Santa Catarina, Brazil to the illustrious Luthier, researcher and author Gustav Janzen and his wife Maria Janzen. As a young child, he visited his father�
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Michael Altshuler has over 25 y
I follow very much the same process in building violins as it was done in the 17th century. Hours go by where the sound of the gouge or chisel is all that is heard in my shop. My bench-made instru
