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What a find!!
He even has the same carpet as my 'local' luthier!!
(turner violins at the Custard Factory, Birmingham UK)
I am amazed at how old people of my age are.....
The good part is that I have been asking some locals if there was a violin shop close by but most of the locals here are retirees from NYC who know nothing. It took me about 4 years to find this guy out in the boonies.
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I finally found a luthier that still makes instrument in Québec hehe, they are hiding off the internet I tell you! There is a little image of his heaven also, but it looks all neat.
http://www.rouleauluthier.com/.....nglish.htm
The above link is no longer valid. 8/12/2025
"It can sing like a bird, it can cry like a human being, it can be very angry, it can be all that humans are" Maxim Vengerov
Wow ..... "neat" is right.
My sloppy guy is a derelict anyhow. I asked him why all his display violins had the shortest chin rests I had ever seen. He gave me a patient smile and said "They are the only kind that work." Hmmm !
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I guess I should get one of the short ones then 🙂
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
Believe is or not the man reached that conclusion and he is on NO forums NOR reads them and has no other outside influences. Interesting. The violin I got from him already has his "special" chin rest and he is right. It is his $10 high end model and he does not know what the name is 
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Haaaaa! Those damn New Yorkers, lmao.
When I saw the first pic while scrolling up, I thought this was a pic of a NC backwoods baitshop with a fancy display case; then scrolled up one more and thought, "yeah, baitshop, he has fishing poles hanging in the background", then realized, wait, not fishing poles, violin bows,,,,,, and it's a music shop!
And the "because they're the only ones that work [read, only ones I have to sell]" comment just topped off the picture.
Thanks for sharing that little piece of American charm Oliver! I've seen something very similar in Lake Worth, TX; music shop that happened to also sell worms [that would be fishing worms]!
If you drove thru his town at 25 MPH you would have to back up to see it. The worms can't be far away.
Besides, I may have been hasty to only show the violin part of the operation. His actual location is called a "Mercantile" ..... whatever that is 
@Fiddlestix hang loose I have a CR picture somewhere.
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Haha, pit Mercantile in Wikipedia.
You'll be no wiser afterward!
I am amazed at how old people of my age are.....
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