The Art of Violin Making

By Chris Johnson and Roy Courtnall. Anyone involved in the art of violinmaking will love this large-format reference book. It focuses on the individual steps professionals use in violin making. The accompanying drawings, detail photographs and descriptions make the violinmaking process easy for amateurs to understand. A presentation of great past and present makers with their instruments, glossary, trade directory and notes on various instrument collections complete this unique book.

”Exhaustive in its exposition of the process of construction, this book carries the inspiration and the authority of that commitment toperfection, which is the supreme beauty ofsound, aspect and touch of a violin.”
- Lord Yehudi Menuhin in his foreword.

253 pages, over 400 photographs and illustrations, some in color, hardcover, 220 x 305 mm.