Category Archives: Members Articles

From ABC News: A battery of forensics tests has determined that a violin found in a British man’s attic is the instrument that was used by the bandmaster of the Titanic to play, according to lore, “Nearer My God to … Continue reading →

From ubergizmo.com: 3D printing seems to be in the news as of late, and apart from obvious hobbyist escapades and medical purposes, you can also make use of 3D printing to roll out something totally different – case in point, … Continue reading →

From PostStar.com (Glen Falls, NY): It’s hard to imagine Geoffrey Ovington’s Shushan studio was once a dairy barn filled with hay bales. It’s even harder to believe this building is a workshop where he produces world-class stringed instruments — there … Continue reading →

Sheet music on music stands provide the road map for an orchestra’s performance, but scribbled annotations by the players impose a conductor’s ideas and serve as simple reminders to make an entrance or count correctly. Now, with more than half-million … Continue reading →

From Smithsonian Magazine: On May 1st, 1863, Solomon Conn bought a violin in Nashville, Tennessee. By the end of his years as an infantryman in Company B of the 87th Indiana Volunteers, he’d re-purposed it into a diary, inscribing its … Continue reading →

From Strings magazine (www.allthingsstrings.com): Howard Thronson seems like an even-tempered guy. But his voice takes on a certain edge when he starts talking about timber poaching in the forests of Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula, where he began his career as … Continue reading →

From the Los Angeles Times: Quietly giddy, Sarah Thornblade sat on the couch of a Pasadena home nervously anticipating the encounter. She’d been waiting for this moment for weeks; when it finally came she wasted no time. Thornblade stood, unzipped … Continue reading →

From the Nelson Mail, New Zealand In a quiet studio in New Zealand, Adrian Studer sits for hours on end, chiseling, scraping, and planing, over and over again. Surrounded by special tools hanging on hooks and scattered over his shaving-coated … Continue reading →