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Biografien
Glue Production
History
Glossary
Glues
Historic Recipe
what's the secret?
Coloring the Varnish
What varnish is made of
The Making of Violin Varnish
Glossary of terms
Bows
Roland Moser (*1943)
Fritz Voegelin (1943-2020)
Heinz Holliger (*1939)
Rudolf Baumgartner (1917-2002)
Caspar Diethelm (1926-1997)
audio samples from 1970
Robert Oboussier (1900-1957)
Willy Burkhard (1900-1955)
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
Frank Martin (1890-1974)
audio samples 1930-1970
Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)
Fritz Brun (1878-1959)
Walter Courvoisier (1875-1931)
Hermann Suter (1870-1926)
Hans Huber (1852-1921)
Joachim Raff (1822-1882)
Gaspard Fritz (1716-1783)
audio samples 1750-1930
Streichmusik Geschwister Küng «Aheemele»
Brandhölzler Striichmusig, «Nöd grad preziis e sennisches»
Trio Ambäck, «Verändler»
Noldi Alder «new appenzell string music project»
Appenzell today
Appenzell historical
«Valse»
«Mädchen putz di»
«Schottisch»
Hanni Christen
Swiss folk music
Mittenwald
Markneukirchen
Bubenreuth
Mirecourt
Paris
Venice
Brescia
Füssen
Cremona
European centres of violin making
Migration in European violin making
Conference report by Dr Thomas Gartmann
Provenance research project
Computer tomography
Dendrochronology
Infrared spectroscopy
Ultraviolet light examination
Scientific analysis procedures today
The trial
Swiss newsreel 1953
The Swiss Violin War
Falsely promoted instruments!?
The trade in forgeries
Switzerland as a hub
‘Lady Blunt’, a meteoric rise in value
Tarisio and the Messias
History of trade
Pierre Gerber- La Galérie des Célèbres
The founding of the SVGB
Famous violinists, famous violins
The ‘Allgemeine Musikgesellschaften’ (General Music Societies)
Collegia Musica
The blossoming of classical music culture
Audio Samples of the Alemannic School
The Alemannic School
Early Swiss violin making
Violin making and folk music
Brienz legend: ‘The strange violinist’
The dance and music ban
Fränzli music from Grisons
Graubünden, Safiental
String music in Appenzell
Rural ‘Streichmusik’ (string music)
Methfessel, Gustav (1839-1910)
Jacot, Werner and Alex
Werro, Henry (1896-1971)
Vidoudez, Alfred und Pierre
Lütschg, Gustav (1870-1947)
Züst, Jacob Emil (1864-1946)
Instruments and their makers
Activists in Romanian forests
Reforestation project in Madagascar
Why bow makers are reforesting forests
Endangered species
Logging
Rafting and violin making
Drifting and rafting
From the forest to violin making
Trees in Swiss forests
Timber profiles
Climate, forest boundary
Mountain forests and tonewood
...and forests
Counting the annual growth rings/Dendrochronology
Moon wood?!
Composition
Anatomy
Of woods ...
Varnish
Construction of Violins
Baroque and modern construction
A brief history of the violin
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