I'm really enjoying my Pietro Giorgianni. I'm revisiting songs I've given up on in the past because I just couldn't make them sound good. With the new instrument, I love what I hear and feel newly encouraged and optimistic. Thanks again!!!
Would be interesting and practical for new buyers if you could contact or contract an audio studio and have a violinist play the same song on all of your instruments. Then make a video of it and have the raw audio in your site. I know is a lot to do, expenses and logistic but would make for great content here in TH-cam and in your shop.
I would love a general video on differences in F holes, one piece vs. two piece back, can you have a one piece or two piece front, and arching for violins!
Dear Mr. Grawart, thank you for that little procedure you taught me the other day involving that special procedure for the individual ends of the strings. My instrument is now cata classic! Bless you! And thank you! Most greatful! Bye!😅
I have not played violin in at least 10 years. But I’ve been enjoying your videos for the past couple years. If I ever get back into it, I will 100% be supporting you with one of those beautiful pierre lomont’s
I love watching your videos and learning from you. I’ve been on my own personal journey of learning how to setup string instruments properly, and I love when I can make an adjustment to an instrument that makes it so much easier for a student to play. It feels like a kind of magic. :) If I was close by you, I would love to try out your violins.
Hi Olaf! I can personally atest to the quality of the Pierte Lomont Master violin (well, mine at least). It is a very good instrument, well carved from good woods, and set up perfectly by Olaf himself. I love my Piere Lomobt Violin, and I am sure that Olaf (he IS rather fussy about quality actually) ensures consistent quality and performance for all his instruments. If I can afford it (maybe next year?) I want to pick up a Georg Hoffmeister Master violin or maybe even the Salvatore Lombari Umm, your website shop shows the Salvatore Lombardi at $5,497 AUD actually.
I’ve got a German made violin 1926 that I gave it to my granddaughter in Chicago. My daughter took it to a graduate of the Chicago school of violin making. They put on new strings, a new bridge, and a tail piece with the four tuning adjusters. The other one just had one tuning adjuster for the E string. She won’t tell me what they charged her.
Great insight, always interesting and informative! Have you considered upgrading your audio recording quality? An external mic placed closer to your mouth would make a notable difference to the quality of your audio and hopefully help your channel grow. Just a polite suggestion from a professional audio engineer, your videos are always really interesting! *Edit, as I appear to be blocked from replying to the reply below, I’ll reinstate that I am a professional audio engineer, my setup in my home studio is Genelec 8350 monitors via Apogee Ensemble interface in a well treated room, a very high end audio chain. But I also have well trained ears and can clearly tell good audio from bad even from my phone. Good, clear audio is vital to take a channel up a notch, and wouldn’t need to be particularly expensive upgrade to make a difference to the current audio quality. I don’t want to make it a big deal, I’ve always been a fan of the channel, but that is my suggestion. I’ve tried to remain polite throughout, but the person below who questioned my audio chain without knowing anything about me has made me feel the need to respond further. Best wishes and good luck with the growth of your channel.
Begging your pardon, but I believe the sound difficulties may be at your end. The audio, for me is great. If you are listening on a laptop, or a telephone, the sound will, certainly, suffer. If you have a desk top, or tower, you still need a good sound system, on your motherboard and good speakers. I, personally have a Creative sound card, in my tower, with a, powered, Creative 5.1 speaker system. I have No issues, at all. Even though that hardware is quite old, it's Great. 😁✌🖖
@@zapa1pnt begging your pardon, I’m actually a professional audio engineer, I can listen through my Genelec 8350s via an Apogee Ensmeble in my well acoustic-treated home studio, an audio chain worth in excess of £5000 here in the UK. I have a well trained ear and I’m simply trying to provide polite constructive criticism that the audio quality on this channel compared to other channels is low quality. So much so that I can clearly tell the difference even on my phone, enough so that it often makes me want to turn the video off, despite as I said in my initial comment, the quality of the content always being very high and interesting. It’s not to berate anybody, just feedback from an audio enthusiast. Many many successful TH-cam channels have agreed for years that high quality audio is as important - if not often more important - than excellent quality video, and it doesn’t matter whether I listen via a phone or through my high end home studio equipment, the audio could clearly improve, and unfortunately I’m usually too polite to have said it so harshly, but by you making a judgement about me and my listening chain has got my back up and I feel the need to say actually yes I am an audio expert, and my comment was trying to politely suggest that better audio is well worth it to help the channel grow.
@@zapa1pnt yes, I am in fact a professional audio engineer with a passion for good audio. I can listen with my Genelec 8350 monitors and an Apogee Ensemble interface in a well treated home studio, about as good a listening setup as one could expect for £5000-£6000 here in the UK. I also, however have a very well trained ear and it’s very easy for me to distinguish audio quality between this and other channels even on my phone. I’m fully aware of phone speaker limitations, but I can also clearly tell bad audio when I hear it, because most successful channels have clear audio, even when played on a phone. Good audio quality is essential for a TH-cam channel - mainly BECAUSE so many of us listen on phones - and it was merely a polite suggestion that even a basic audio upgrade would be of huge value to the channel in its production value. I’ll restate, I’ve always enjoyed the content of this channel, it really is interesting, and I’m just offering an audio expert’s opinion on how the channel could improve.
@@zapa1pnt yes, I am in fact a professional audio engineer with a passion for good audio. I can listen with my Genelec 8350 monitors and an Apogee Ensemble interface in a well treated home studio, about as good a listening setup as one could expect for £5000-£6000 here in the UK. I also, however have a very well trained ear and it’s very easy for me to distinguish audio quality between this and other channels even on my phone. I’m fully aware of phone speaker limitations, but I can also clearly tell bad audio when I hear it, because most successful channels have clear audio, even when played on a phone. Good audio quality is essential for a TH-cam channel - mainly BECAUSE so many of us listen on phones - and it was merely a polite suggestion that even a basic audio upgrade would be of huge value to the channel in its production value. I’ll restate, I’ve always enjoyed the content of this channel, it really is interesting, and I’m just offering an audio expert’s opinion on how the channel could improve.
@@zapa1pnt yes, I am in fact a professional audio engineer with a passion for good audio. I can listen with my Genelec 8350 monitors and an Apogee Ensemble interface in a well treated home studio, about as good a listening setup as one could expect for £5000-£6000 here in the UK. I also, however have a very well trained ear and it’s very easy for me to distinguish audio quality between this and other channels even on my phone. I’m fully aware of phone speaker limitations, but I can also clearly tell bad audio when I hear it, because most successful channels have clear audio, even when played on a phone. Good audio quality is essential for a TH-cam channel - mainly BECAUSE so many of us listen on phones - and it was merely a polite suggestion that even a basic audio upgrade would be of huge value to the channel in its production value. I’ll restate, I’ve always enjoyed the content of this channel, it really is interesting, and I’m just offering an audio expert’s opinion on how the channel could improve.
I was considering whether to comment or not, because on one hand I respect you for bringing accessible instruments for people to play all over the world, while on the other I think that some things should stay traditional. It doesn't help that as a proud Italian, if I were in the market for a violin I wouldn't look at anything made outside of Europe, but I really think that "made in China" products should not be considered authentic classical instruments. That's just my opinion, though, and it doesn't diminish the respect that I have for your work.
If your definition of "authentic" is "European" - maybe. But I believe that would be a bit short sighted. The other six continents have something to offer as well. The quality of Chinese manufacturing has gone up significantly over the last couple of decades. It used to be universally crappy. Now you can get any quality you like - from complete crap to very high quality. The Chinese economy is big enough to deliver almost anything you ask for. It's just that most of us ask for the cheapest option online - of course you get questionable quality under those circumstances. You can get high quality if you know how to ask.
@@KonradTheWizzardI don't disagree with you, but consider this for a second: the violins produced by Olaf's collaborators, even if they are quality checked and setup by the man himself, have completely made up names. As silly a detail as this may be, it does make me wonder why he wouldn't release them under his own name, opting instead for monikers that don't carry much more weight than any other more or less plausibly named Chinese brand. It's similar to comparing an authentic Gibson guitar, or even a Fender, to a Chinese clone such as Harley Benton: the instruments are definitely more accessible, look similar enough to the real thing and, if you're lucky, they're also going to be playable. But even if they were in the same league as the instruments they're copying, which they rarely are, they still don't carry the same pedigree, and many people will demand the originals. (Disclaimer: I do own a Harley Benton guitar, on which I have spent an inordinate amount of time to make it playable. Admittedly, it was a B-stock thing with a number of issues and, unlike Olaf, I'm a hobbyist with inadequate tools, but it's otherwise a similar thing to what he is doing: taking instruments that are most of the way there and bringing them across the finish line. In the end they're fine, as long as you're okay with them not having been made by a seasoned maker.)
@@BeastOfSoda This is very simple to answer: giving a product chiefly made by someone else your own name suggests something that it is not. So Olaf is honest here and gives those no-name violins a made up name that makes it easy to categorize who they are made and set up for. As for those people who demand a higher pedigree and/or better quality: they'd better pay for it. An original Olaf violin is (probably?) a lot more expensive than a "Piere Lomont". Or put in guitar terms: if you want a Fender then pay for a Fender! 😀 If you don't have the money, need or talent for a Fender or other expensive instrument: a Chinese copy set up by a professional will be the next best thing. These Chinese made and professionally set up instruments fill a gap that serves a lot of people with genuine needs, who would not be able to afford an instrument otherwise. Don't poo poo them because they offend your sense of authenticity. Reserve your ire for genuinely bad quality and bad advice - there is plenty of that around - on every continent. 😁
@@KonradTheWizzardoh, but I'm not flinging poo at them. Hilariously, I find that we are in complete agreement on this topic: just as I wouldn't have the combination of talent, budget, discernment or brand name draw to appreciate the niceties of a high end guitar (hence why I bought a Thomann special), there is a place for violinists who don't want to open a mortgage to get a serviceable instrument. The issue I'm having with this is making them sound like European made instruments, which they aren't. That's not disparaging them, it's a statement of fact.
I also feel like adding that, while a luthier based in Australia is not likely going to have manufacturing done in Europe, especially from a cost standpoint, if he stands by his products there would be nothing wrong per se in putting his own name on them, just like the most renowned makers had collaborators building instruments that were then sold under the master's name (Stradivari comes to mind). After all, while Leo Fender created so many iconic instruments, it would be disingenuous to say that he would also be building them once the blueprints were finalized (just think about the various Made in Mexico or Indonesia lines). And yeah, one could argue that the cheapest models are branded as Squier instead of Fender, but just like Epiphone to Gibson these were real brands that got acquired and repurposed to make budget instruments.
Without sound samples (professionally recorded clips) it's impossible to comment on the sound. I'd love to hear a professional violinist play your instruments.
Hi Olaf, I have seen a couple of the violins you have made and I’ve seen pieces of one you’re working on recently so you’re gonna have to show your finished product so that guy who says you’re not a violin maker, can say you are a violin maker.
Olaf, It's so sad to see people saying you aren't a Violin Maker Because you don't personally make the lower cost ones. Perhaps they should watch your older videos or research you on the internet. IT shows their ignorance, not stupidity of your career. Read my reply to Andrestes:) I don't know why I bothered replying, you don't need defending:) Cheers, Rik Spector
It is better to hire some advanced student or violinist who can play the instruments to appreciate the sounds.... you can say they sound fantastic but we can't hear them at all
So, the foreign names of the violin models don't refer to an actual historical person who played or made violins. It is an effective way to remember the models and convey something about what one might expect tonally. 😒
Olaf, with all due respect, I would like to ask you something. Why do you call yourself a violin maker? I have not seen you carve any wood, nor make a violin with your own hands. The violins you sell are made in China. Asking a Chinese to make a violin to your specifications is not the same as making violins by your own hand. It seems to me that you are an excellent luthier, but you should not call yourself a violin maker.
He does build violins. His violins cost are very expensive, so coupled with the amount of repairs and set ups he performs, it doesn’t allow much time to devote to building. He can’t make entry level violins that are cost efficient himself. That’s why he offers china built.
@@cornelious2please show me a video of him making a violin from a piece of wood like a real violin maker. All I see is good videos of him repairing violins and doing set ups. Making a violin is something completely different . Also all the violins he sells in his website are Chinese violins and a couple of antique violins.
@@andrestes3848 You know nothing about his skills or his past. Anyone like Olaf who is called in to restore or rebuild famous old instruments has to know how to build them from scratch and if you ever researched the history of the greats like Stradivarius or Guarneri or others, they did not personally make every violin, they had apprentices whose violins were finalized by them. BY the way, some of the greatest crafts men in the world are Chinese, with all due respect, I suggest you research before you speak. Frederick Spector
I’ve got a German made violin 1926 that I gave it to my granddaughter in Chicago. My daughter took it to a graduate of the Chicago school of violin making. They put on new strings, a new bridge, and a tail piece with the four tuning adjusters. The other one just had one tuning adjuster for the E string. She won’t tell me what they charged her.
I'm really enjoying my Pietro Giorgianni. I'm revisiting songs I've given up on in the past because I just couldn't make them sound good. With the new instrument, I love what I hear and feel newly encouraged and optimistic. Thanks again!!!
@@Careenev That's so wonderful to hear!
I love that violin... It was one I just couldn't put down when I tried it out 😊🎻
Would be interesting and practical for new buyers if you could contact or contract an audio studio and have a violinist play the same song on all of your instruments. Then make a video of it and have the raw audio in your site. I know is a lot to do, expenses and logistic but would make for great content here in TH-cam and in your shop.
Maybe just me, but I was hoping for more discussion on what is physically different in the designs.
I would love a general video on differences in F holes, one piece vs. two piece back, can you have a one piece or two piece front, and arching for violins!
Olaf... you have that air of the nutty violin professor look. I really enjoy your videos and humor that you put into them. Thanks buddy.
Dear Mr. Grawart, thank you for that little procedure you taught me the other day involving that special procedure for the individual ends of the strings. My instrument is now cata classic! Bless you! And thank you! Most greatful! Bye!😅
I have not played violin in at least 10 years. But I’ve been enjoying your videos for the past couple years. If I ever get back into it, I will 100% be supporting you with one of those beautiful pierre lomont’s
Oh look, it's Olaf talking about Olov his instruments !
Your knowlegdge and craftsmanship never fails to fascinate and amaze me here in Holland!
So the choices range is between ; BMW -Porshe Ferrari - Lamborghini
xD they all look so fantastic Olaf!
Many thanks!
They look and sound great. Love your channel anyways, as you combine knowledge with a good sense of humour.
I love watching your videos and learning from you. I’ve been on my own personal journey of learning how to setup string instruments properly, and I love when I can make an adjustment to an instrument that makes it so much easier for a student to play. It feels like a kind of magic. :)
If I was close by you, I would love to try out your violins.
i'm dyslexic. I read the title as "my cousin designed instruments" :x
@@Charbold hahaha... I love my cousin's, but they may not turn out the same. 😂
even though you mostly talk about the piere lomont on your videos i found the garibaldi to be a great step up from my previous violin…
Curious what design work you did on those bows.
Hi Olaf!
I can personally atest to the quality of the Pierte Lomont Master violin (well, mine at least). It is a very good instrument, well carved from good woods, and set up perfectly by Olaf himself.
I love my Piere Lomobt Violin, and I am sure that Olaf (he IS rather fussy about quality actually) ensures consistent quality and performance for all his instruments.
If I can afford it (maybe next year?) I want to pick up a Georg Hoffmeister Master violin or maybe even the Salvatore Lombari
Umm, your website shop shows the Salvatore Lombardi at $5,497 AUD actually.
I’ve got a German made violin 1926 that I gave it to my granddaughter in Chicago. My daughter took it to a graduate of the Chicago school of violin making. They put on new strings, a new bridge, and a tail piece with the four tuning adjusters. The other one just had one tuning adjuster for the E string. She won’t tell me what they charged her.
Enjoyed this very much great violins!
I like your new intro. (unless it's not new and I really haven't been paying nearly enough attention)
Great insight, always interesting and informative!
Have you considered upgrading your audio recording quality? An external mic placed closer to your mouth would make a notable difference to the quality of your audio and hopefully help your channel grow.
Just a polite suggestion from a professional audio engineer, your videos are always really interesting!
*Edit, as I appear to be blocked from replying to the reply below, I’ll reinstate that I am a professional audio engineer, my setup in my home studio is Genelec 8350 monitors via Apogee Ensemble interface in a well treated room, a very high end audio chain. But I also have well trained ears and can clearly tell good audio from bad even from my phone. Good, clear audio is vital to take a channel up a notch, and wouldn’t need to be particularly expensive upgrade to make a difference to the current audio quality. I don’t want to make it a big deal, I’ve always been a fan of the channel, but that is my suggestion. I’ve tried to remain polite throughout, but the person below who questioned my audio chain without knowing anything about me has made me feel the need to respond further.
Best wishes and good luck with the growth of your channel.
Begging your pardon, but I believe the sound
difficulties may be at your end. The audio, for
me is great. If you are listening on a laptop, or
a telephone, the sound will, certainly, suffer.
If you have a desk top, or tower, you still need
a good sound system, on your motherboard and
good speakers. I, personally have a Creative
sound card, in my tower, with a, powered, Creative
5.1 speaker system. I have No issues, at all. Even
though that hardware is quite old, it's Great. 😁✌🖖
@@zapa1pnt begging your pardon, I’m actually a professional audio engineer, I can listen through my Genelec 8350s via an Apogee Ensmeble in my well acoustic-treated home studio, an audio chain worth in excess of £5000 here in the UK.
I have a well trained ear and I’m simply trying to provide polite constructive criticism that the audio quality on this channel compared to other channels is low quality. So much so that I can clearly tell the difference even on my phone, enough so that it often makes me want to turn the video off, despite as I said in my initial comment, the quality of the content always being very high and interesting. It’s not to berate anybody, just feedback from an audio enthusiast.
Many many successful TH-cam channels have agreed for years that high quality audio is as important - if not often more important - than excellent quality video, and it doesn’t matter whether I listen via a phone or through my high end home studio equipment, the audio could clearly improve, and unfortunately I’m usually too polite to have said it so harshly, but by you making a judgement about me and my listening chain has got my back up and I feel the need to say actually yes I am an audio expert, and my comment was trying to politely suggest that better audio is well worth it to help the channel grow.
@@zapa1pnt yes, I am in fact a professional audio engineer with a passion for good audio. I can listen with my Genelec 8350 monitors and an Apogee Ensemble interface in a well treated home studio, about as good a listening setup as one could expect for £5000-£6000 here in the UK. I also, however have a very well trained ear and it’s very easy for me to distinguish audio quality between this and other channels even on my phone. I’m fully aware of phone speaker limitations, but I can also clearly tell bad audio when I hear it, because most successful channels have clear audio, even when played on a phone. Good audio quality is essential for a TH-cam channel - mainly BECAUSE so many of us listen on phones - and it was merely a polite suggestion that even a basic audio upgrade would be of huge value to the channel in its production value.
I’ll restate, I’ve always enjoyed the content of this channel, it really is interesting, and I’m just offering an audio expert’s opinion on how the channel could improve.
@@zapa1pnt yes, I am in fact a professional audio engineer with a passion for good audio. I can listen with my Genelec 8350 monitors and an Apogee Ensemble interface in a well treated home studio, about as good a listening setup as one could expect for £5000-£6000 here in the UK. I also, however have a very well trained ear and it’s very easy for me to distinguish audio quality between this and other channels even on my phone. I’m fully aware of phone speaker limitations, but I can also clearly tell bad audio when I hear it, because most successful channels have clear audio, even when played on a phone. Good audio quality is essential for a TH-cam channel - mainly BECAUSE so many of us listen on phones - and it was merely a polite suggestion that even a basic audio upgrade would be of huge value to the channel in its production value.
I’ll restate, I’ve always enjoyed the content of this channel, it really is interesting, and I’m just offering an audio expert’s opinion on how the channel could improve.
@@zapa1pnt yes, I am in fact a professional audio engineer with a passion for good audio. I can listen with my Genelec 8350 monitors and an Apogee Ensemble interface in a well treated home studio, about as good a listening setup as one could expect for £5000-£6000 here in the UK. I also, however have a very well trained ear and it’s very easy for me to distinguish audio quality between this and other channels even on my phone. I’m fully aware of phone speaker limitations, but I can also clearly tell bad audio when I hear it, because most successful channels have clear audio, even when played on a phone. Good audio quality is essential for a TH-cam channel - mainly BECAUSE so many of us listen on phones - and it was merely a polite suggestion that even a basic audio upgrade would be of huge value to the channel in its production value.
I’ll restate, I’ve always enjoyed the content of this channel, it really is interesting, and I’m just offering an audio expert’s opinion on how the channel could improve.
Random question: have you ever encountered a Ukelin before?
I was considering whether to comment or not, because on one hand I respect you for bringing accessible instruments for people to play all over the world, while on the other I think that some things should stay traditional. It doesn't help that as a proud Italian, if I were in the market for a violin I wouldn't look at anything made outside of Europe, but I really think that "made in China" products should not be considered authentic classical instruments. That's just my opinion, though, and it doesn't diminish the respect that I have for your work.
If your definition of "authentic" is "European" - maybe. But I believe that would be a bit short sighted. The other six continents have something to offer as well.
The quality of Chinese manufacturing has gone up significantly over the last couple of decades. It used to be universally crappy. Now you can get any quality you like - from complete crap to very high quality. The Chinese economy is big enough to deliver almost anything you ask for. It's just that most of us ask for the cheapest option online - of course you get questionable quality under those circumstances. You can get high quality if you know how to ask.
@@KonradTheWizzardI don't disagree with you, but consider this for a second: the violins produced by Olaf's collaborators, even if they are quality checked and setup by the man himself, have completely made up names. As silly a detail as this may be, it does make me wonder why he wouldn't release them under his own name, opting instead for monikers that don't carry much more weight than any other more or less plausibly named Chinese brand. It's similar to comparing an authentic Gibson guitar, or even a Fender, to a Chinese clone such as Harley Benton: the instruments are definitely more accessible, look similar enough to the real thing and, if you're lucky, they're also going to be playable. But even if they were in the same league as the instruments they're copying, which they rarely are, they still don't carry the same pedigree, and many people will demand the originals. (Disclaimer: I do own a Harley Benton guitar, on which I have spent an inordinate amount of time to make it playable. Admittedly, it was a B-stock thing with a number of issues and, unlike Olaf, I'm a hobbyist with inadequate tools, but it's otherwise a similar thing to what he is doing: taking instruments that are most of the way there and bringing them across the finish line. In the end they're fine, as long as you're okay with them not having been made by a seasoned maker.)
@@BeastOfSoda This is very simple to answer: giving a product chiefly made by someone else your own name suggests something that it is not. So Olaf is honest here and gives those no-name violins a made up name that makes it easy to categorize who they are made and set up for. As for those people who demand a higher pedigree and/or better quality: they'd better pay for it. An original Olaf violin is (probably?) a lot more expensive than a "Piere Lomont". Or put in guitar terms: if you want a Fender then pay for a Fender! 😀
If you don't have the money, need or talent for a Fender or other expensive instrument: a Chinese copy set up by a professional will be the next best thing. These Chinese made and professionally set up instruments fill a gap that serves a lot of people with genuine needs, who would not be able to afford an instrument otherwise. Don't poo poo them because they offend your sense of authenticity. Reserve your ire for genuinely bad quality and bad advice - there is plenty of that around - on every continent. 😁
@@KonradTheWizzardoh, but I'm not flinging poo at them. Hilariously, I find that we are in complete agreement on this topic: just as I wouldn't have the combination of talent, budget, discernment or brand name draw to appreciate the niceties of a high end guitar (hence why I bought a Thomann special), there is a place for violinists who don't want to open a mortgage to get a serviceable instrument. The issue I'm having with this is making them sound like European made instruments, which they aren't. That's not disparaging them, it's a statement of fact.
I also feel like adding that, while a luthier based in Australia is not likely going to have manufacturing done in Europe, especially from a cost standpoint, if he stands by his products there would be nothing wrong per se in putting his own name on them, just like the most renowned makers had collaborators building instruments that were then sold under the master's name (Stradivari comes to mind). After all, while Leo Fender created so many iconic instruments, it would be disingenuous to say that he would also be building them once the blueprints were finalized (just think about the various Made in Mexico or Indonesia lines). And yeah, one could argue that the cheapest models are branded as Squier instead of Fender, but just like Epiphone to Gibson these were real brands that got acquired and repurposed to make budget instruments.
Without sound samples (professionally recorded clips) it's impossible to comment on the sound. I'd love to hear a professional violinist play your instruments.
Check his past videos.
Hi Olaf, I have seen a couple of the violins you have made and I’ve seen pieces of one you’re working on recently so you’re gonna have to show your finished product so that guy who says you’re not a violin maker, can say you are a violin maker.
And cello tape for if it breaks?
What? No violas?
hi
Olaf,
It's so sad to see people saying you aren't a Violin Maker Because you don't
personally make the lower cost ones.
Perhaps they should watch your older videos or research you on the internet.
IT shows their ignorance, not stupidity of your career.
Read my reply to Andrestes:)
I don't know why I bothered replying, you don't need defending:)
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Do you make violas as well?
@@kenya1422 yes
It is better to hire some advanced student or violinist who can play the instruments to appreciate the sounds.... you can say they sound fantastic but we can't hear them at all
Converts to US dollars ... "Even Better". I'm gonna start converting all my bills to British Pounds so they will be "even better". :)
So, the foreign names of the violin models don't refer to an actual historical person who played or made violins. It is an effective way to remember the models and convey something about what one might expect tonally. 😒
Olaf, with all due respect, I would like to ask you something. Why do you call yourself a violin maker? I have not seen you carve any wood, nor make a violin with your own hands. The violins you sell are made in China. Asking a Chinese to make a violin to your specifications is not the same as making violins by your own hand. It seems to me that you are an excellent luthier, but you should not call yourself a violin maker.
Have you not seen his videos? He has MANY "carving wood" doing nearly full rebuilds.
He makes violins himself from start to finish wirh his own hands. He's been making violins fir a very long time. He as shown this in many past videos.
He does build violins. His violins cost are very expensive, so coupled with the amount of repairs and set ups he performs, it doesn’t allow much time to devote to building. He can’t make entry level violins that are cost efficient himself. That’s why he offers china built.
@@cornelious2please show me a video of him making a violin from a piece of wood like a real violin maker. All I see is good videos of him repairing violins and doing set ups. Making a violin is something completely different . Also all the violins he sells in his website are Chinese violins and a couple of antique violins.
@@andrestes3848 You know nothing about his skills or his past.
Anyone like Olaf who is called in to restore or rebuild famous old instruments has to
know how to build them from scratch and if you ever researched the history of the
greats like Stradivarius or Guarneri or others, they did not personally make every violin,
they had apprentices whose violins were finalized by them.
BY the way, some of the greatest crafts men in the world are Chinese, with all due respect,
I suggest you research before you speak.
Frederick Spector
I’ve got a German made violin 1926 that I gave it to my granddaughter in Chicago. My daughter took it to a graduate of the Chicago school of violin making. They put on new strings, a new bridge, and a tail piece with the four tuning adjusters. The other one just had one tuning adjuster for the E string. She won’t tell me what they charged her.