MeyerFittings

Show a peg. They don't look like 1 to 20 from the photo.

Judges?

"'It's a wonderful bow from Noel, plays and sounds like a fine French bow." No suprise there.

Thanks Dwight, the Art Toman fiddle has my fittings on it. Art was an early customer of mine and a super nice guy. My memory is getting so bollocksed, but I remember making that set for him.

the one with the cracked plate looks like it already has a spline.

does the auction description say it's gold mounted?

What part?

to me, a pretty head.

116 is a long violin tp.

I do everything with my arms and shoulder right handed andwith my wrist lefty. I hold tools in my left hand, and throw a ball with my right. I eat left handed. In archery I held the bow with my right hand. I play the guitar lefty. I fiddled with the violin a bit, but always with the bow in my left hand. I was told that I could reverse this tendency buti I never could. It limits one quite a bit.

I don't know how many of you have seen this Documentary. It's pretty fascinating, and highlights some of this topic. . https://www.fandor.com/films/mardi_gras

Bigger children? Sorry, not funny but I couldn't help myself. You know what I'm aiming at.

They also wouldn't be building them if they had to pay their workers what it costs to live in the US or Canada or even most of the West.

Would you be able to tell which machine made what instrument? Would the next instrument that particular machine made be identical in those imperfections or recognisable as the same machine with different set of imperfections? Would the instruments by that machine improve with the amount of instruments it made? Ultimately, other than copying a beautiful instrument would the machine pick up on what made it beautiful and make ensuing beautiful but dissimilar instruments?

When machines screw up, thye screw up in a large way. When artists screw up they do so in minute increments. I believe that these slight inperfections are what makes art and craft interesting and beautiful. The perfection of Strads scrolls is not perfection mathematically but how close he comes to it while still remaining interesting and beautiful. Not sterile. No two humans are exactly alike. No two humanly crafted scrolls are alike yet we can recognise them as coming from the same human hand. Thats the art of it.