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Greetings to all. This is a significantly edited and updated listing of the lutherie books I currently have for sale. I will consider reasonable offers. I can be reached here or via email if that is allowed here (I am not a luthier; I am selling the books from my late husband's estate). Thanks and best wishes to all -- Margie Nerad email at margiecats13@gmail.com Azzolina, Umberto: Liuteria Italiana dell’ottocento e del novecento, $100 hardcover G. Baese: Classic Italian Violin Varnish $500 mint in slip cover, #137 Buchner, Alexander: Musical Instruments through the Ages, $25 hardcover Cité de la Musique: Violins, Vuillaume $90 paperback, exc Cooper: Benjamin Banks, the Salisbury Violin Maker $75 Dipper and Woodrow: trans: Conte Ignacio Salabue: Observations on the Construction of Stringed Instruments $200 each mint (two copies) Doring: Guadagnini Family hardcover $50 Doring: How Many Strads? $175 Fulton: Turpentine violin varnish $50 incl manual Fry: Italian Violin varnishes $15 each hardcover mint Gosling: The violinist’s Manual $25 F. Hamma: German Violin Makers $125 each, hardcover, two copies Hammerl: Violin varnishes $60 Harrison, Benjamin: On violin making B. Harvey: The Violin Family and its Makers in the British Isles hardcover exc $300 Harvey: Amadeus Book of the Violin $125 each, hc exc, two copies F.V. Henderson: How to Make A Violin Bow $200 hardcover W.Henley: Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers $500 exc Henley: Antonio Stradivari $30 Heron-Allen: Violin making as it was and is $15 Hill: Stradivari hardcover $325, exc condition hardcover Hill: Guarneri family, Hardcover $300 hill & sons, England Hotel de Ville de Paris: Les Violins: Venetian Instruments, Salle St.-Jean $90 paperback C. Hutchins: Research papers in V acoustics, vols. 1 and 2: $425 for both exc Jalovec: Beautiful Italian Violins $100 hardcover Jalovec: German and Austrian Violin Makers $80 hardcover Jalovec : Italian Violin Makers $80 each (two copies) Jalovec: Encyclopedia of Violin-Makers (in two volumes) $375 Jalovec: Violin Makers of Bohemia $175 Johnson and Courtnall: Art of Violin Making $150 Lyon & Healy: Hawley Collection of Violins - hardcover $25 Millant: JB Vuillaume His life and work $300 (French, English and German) like new W.M. Morris: British Violin Makers $30 Niederheitmann, F: Cremona: An account of the Italian Violin Makers $20 hardcover, exc Pickering: The Bowed String $20 paperback Reid: You can make a “Stradivarius” Violin, $40 vy good Retford : Bows and Bow Makers. $90 exc Robinson: The Guarneri Mold $75 paperback Roda: Bows for Musical Instruments $300 #1095 Sacconi: From Violin making to music $150 Sacconi: The Secrets of Stradivari $400 exc Sacconi: I Secreti di Stradivari (Same book in Italian) : $400 exc, slip case Stowell et al., The Violin Book $40 each (2 copies) (numbered, exc condition, slip cover) Thöne and Greiner: JB Vuillaume (12” x 16.5”) with full color photos and tissue interleaves $550 Vigdorchik: The Acoustical Systems of Violins of Stradivarius and other Cremona Makers $250 Weisshaar and Shipman: Violin Restoration $320 hardcover, near mint condition Wenberg: The Violin Makers of the United States $300 hardcover, near mint signed copy #375 Woodrow: The Shape of Stradivari Violins $300 mint E. Van der Straeten: History of the Violin (hc, good; in two volumes) $40 for both
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Season's Greetings to All! As this post's title indicates, this is a well thrashed horse being brought out for further examination: Recently, I got interested in violin/bow photography. Before I got started, I wanted to do my homework. A cursory search here on Maestronet brought me to Michael Darnton's chapter on instrument photography, so this is where I started. A little deeper searching was enlightening: cf. this recent telecentric lens post. A post on this thread suggests using a telephoto lens to photograph scrolls for templates, in order to reduce distortion. Tarisio's instrument photography guide has been commonly referenced, but seems to be down. Everybody was very complimentary towards it, which makes me wish I could review it! (Ditto a now defunct guide at J & A Beare's website.) While browsing the 2005 Reference thread on violin photography I found this Photoshop advice thread from 2004 with some still relevant information... This 2011 Thread on shiny instrument photography was notable for identifying two "camps" of instrument photography. Particularily interesting was an anecdote from Michael Darnton from his time working for Bob Bein. Apparently they had different ideals/goals for violin photography: Michael wanted more 3D detail, and didn't mind shadows (if I understand correctly) in order to get it. Robert wanted everything flattened out with lots of lighting, which brought out lines, etc., which was useful for identification purposes (IIRC). Of course, in an ideal world, it should be possible to get both! On a related note, I like a lot of the photos on the Music Museum of America's website. I also found this thread which includes a photo of a Vuillaume by Jeffery Holmes that I really like - I feel like it has great clarity, and I can imagine the arching of the fiddle based on the photo. Lighting seems to be key in all of the above discussions. Naturally, this is the area I have the most issue with. Most of the guides referenced above recommend using a pair of "hot lamps" set at an angle. However, (perhaps due to an EU ban?) it is currently well nigh impossible to find incandescent bulbs here in Europe. I do have a 500W bulb from West Germany that still has a little life in it, but because I only have one, it creates a lot of shadows, and not the good kind... In lieu of photo floods (which have the the side benefit of showing shadows and glare ahead of time), has anybody here used LED lighting for instrument photography? That seems to be the fashion here nowadays. From what little I have read about LEDs, they are efficient because they don't use the full spectrum of light. I would think that this would be bad for photographing violins - but what do I know? Any thoughts on Halogen lights? What are you using currently? Any suggestions for a settup available to purchase/rent here in Europe? Is there perhaps an analogue to the inexpensive Smith-Victor lighting sets available in the States? Something I could adjust/dim would be ideal. Cheers, Scoiattolo
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I have a 19th-century Istanbul lyra (pear-shaped fiddle) which has quite a bit of writing, in pencil, in Armeno-Turkish on the underside of the soundboard. Since I don't read Armenian, I need to photograph the entire inscription to get it translated. The soundholes are D-shaped, approx 38x26mm in size, so it is possible to get a dental mirror in there. However, the writing goes pretty far up the soundboard, so at some point the mirror handle gets in the way. I also tried ordering an endoscopic webcam (~$65) from Amazon, but the focal length was not good enough and the solid part of the camera too long to point it straight at the writing. Any new ideas or suggestions on how to proceed? There is definitely valuable information there about a 1920s-era restoration, and maybe something about the maker, too, but I can't move forward until I photograph the whole thing. (Removing the top is not an option!)
