Violin Making - A Practical Guide

Comprehensive yet practical guide to this most beautiful of crafts. Aimed at amateurs, students of violin making and woodworkers. Takes you through the delicate and precise techniques, and brings the art of violin making within the reach of all. Superbly illustrated with nearly 200 colour photographs and clear step-by-step instructions. Juliet Barker is a violinmaker, teacher and musician with over forty years' experience. New in paperback for 2022.

About the author

Juliet Barker went to the Bavarian State School of Violin Making at Mittenwald in 1954. She qualified as a journeyman and set up her own business in Cambridge making and repairing violas. In 1960 Cambridgeshire technical College asked her to start a violin making class - she has taught there ever since. 

Product details

• Authors: Juliet Barker
• Publisher: Wiley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9780719841330
• ISBN: 978-0-7198-4133-0
• Dimensions: 215 mm x 260 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 432 g
• Illustrations: Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Organology; Violin, MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Strings, String instruments