It is inspiring to hear stories of those who live their talents out deeply.

I’m 60 years old and I’m making my first violin. I’ve been making things in wood for decades and I make sculptures in many media as well as paint portraits. I’m using Johnson and Cournalls book and the wealth of wonderful videos to guide me. This snapshot of a great maker is inspiring and I’m attracted to the process because of the tradition and perfection of the form of the violin which I see as extremely beautiful and a kind of high technology as well. I’m using only hand tools and traditional practices. It’s strange but in some ways I feel the same way about bicycles. I can just look at violins and bikes for extended periods like art pieces, there is so much to appreciate and try to understand in the forms.

@LukeSchneiderEWI

8 ай бұрын

Hey, that's awesome ! Good luck on your new endeavor ! You should go to Cremona ,Italy some day ! I bet that would really be an experience ! 👍🎻

@DKMKartha108

4 ай бұрын

I hope you will learn how to play your violin also. Socrates is supposed to have said that "learning one new language every ten years or one new musical instrument every ten years will add 10 years to one's life." After all, John Holt who wrote "Never too Late" learned how to play the cello at 50!

@charlesblithfield6182

4 ай бұрын

@@DKMKartha108 Thanks for the inspiring words.

@DKMKartha108

4 ай бұрын

@@charlesblithfield6182 Greetings.! I taught myself the violin at age 15, then at age 40 learned the flute, at 45 learned the Indian Tabla drums, at 52, the Sitar, and at 59 a difficult instrument called the Sarod. Of course I do not play like Paganini, but I play in such a way that I am happy while making music at my level and constantly improving or trying to improve, and my family and a few friends are pleased. The humble joy of making musical sounds and patterns is so sweet, I assure you. I idolize craftsmen, but when they also play music, they are simply divine to my mind! And believe me, at 75, my digital and manual dexterity is keeping arthritis and company away from me! Best wishes to your craft and hopefully artistry!

@patriciajrs46

2 ай бұрын

​@@DKMKartha108Thank you. I like the idea of never give up. Dream big.

Isn’t it amazing how much care we put into something just to make music

@nickiemcnichols5397

7 ай бұрын

Yes, it is. It is a shame that we spend a lot more energy and money making things to kill each other with.

@patriciajrs46

2 ай бұрын

​@@nickiemcnichols5397Yes.

@Yourweakminds

2 күн бұрын

‘Just’. You betray yourself.

I love this !! Glad there are people out there with a passion for excellence in the field of creating masterpieces of ART and SOUND ! 👍🎻

a very respectable and great craftsman of this century who just wants to understand how he can make his creations better and the experience of each artist. Nonetheless, he is considered to be one of the greatest modern violinmakers of our time with such humility, curiosity and creativity.

I was waiting for this one, such a beautiful film.

@susanwilliams8607

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

Hi Sam. I have learned so much from you, for example I am trying, in my amateur way, to make a copy of the Plowden, so I have read your extensive remarks on it. But in other ways too, just through association and my former students etc. thank you for bringing contemporary violin making to the attention of the public, or the initiated.

What a dream! Thank you for sharing!

Although I play guitar and do not play violin, this is very enjoyable

How humbling, to hear about the sharing of ideas about the craft

Magnificent.

Beautiful!

Amazing video! Thnaks

Thank you for sharing this.

All the works of Master Stradivarius were made of moonwood, therefore, they have the best sound resistance. That's my feeling.

Amazing!!!

I have some other projects in the way first (mainly grinding out my own 12.5" telescope mirror from scratch), but I am thinking of learning to make my own violin. I am nearly 50 years old. This was a very inspiring story.

@DKMKartha108

4 ай бұрын

"Never too Late" by John Holt.

Lovely, thank you for sharing and teaching us modern history of the violin 🎻.

So cool :) my husband is a violinist

please let me know about your soundtrack used? thanks a lot

Hermosos instrumentos. Me hubiera gustado oir como sue nan.

I love this! My main source of information is, "THE "SECRETS,, OF STRADIVARI" SIMON F. SACCONI Eric Blot Edizion CREMONA 2000 Vernice bianca, Silicates of Potassium & Calcium. Have made twins in a StienerVarious model. Both play well, look alike. aged spruce tops, maple scrolls, Smokie Mountain maple sides. Love your vedio..

I love the Cello but not many make them like violins. It's hard to find a nice one.

Hey take your finished violin and soak it in water over night then let it dry out. When the wood expands it will create air pockets and when the wood dries they will shrink but not go away. That should add some reverb. Try it see what happens

@whocares_bear

3 ай бұрын

How dare you!

The hide glue needs to match the density of the wood u are using to make the violin. This makes the glue disappear from the sound waveStratavarus invented a densitomitor.

I have some very interesting original papers from Jaques Francaise. would very much like to connect with you. Signed papers from his office 1951, 1966.

Когда клей влияет на звук и вы в это верите что 0,1 грамма клея может как то влиять?

Why would you want to make "an expensive" violin? To make one that sounds phenominal would be my goal- if I were a maker.

@peadaroloughlin3270

Ай бұрын

I agree with you but I don't think Sam wrote the You Tube title. The film makers write a headline that will "hook" us into clicking the thumbnail video.

bros got less letters in the alphabet missing from his name than letters included

excuse me Francais

Wood is my favorite material to work with, whether it is building airplanes, boats, or stringed instruments. It is God's composite material. Unfortunately it is getting harder and harder to find quality wood, whether it spruce for airplanes and instruments or maple for gun stocks.

"It's not that Stradivari was a genius or that there's a secret." Oh my, what a statement. Really some kind of statement, there, friend.

@stanjohnson591

7 ай бұрын

True my friend!

Oh how I wish I could play your violin. Why don't you go to Cremona and change your name Italian. The price will go up triple. Just thinking

They paid 100k because it belonged to Issac Stern, not because you made it... Like David Gilmore's Fender Stratocaster selling for 1 million, not because it's a Fender, because it was owned by David Gilmore and played on his famous recordings.

300 in a life time !!!!! I make 300 in 4 days !!!! mine sells for 100 dollars !!!!! 😤 thats it im done !!!! im not selling boxes of donuts anymore !!!!

buy an Italian one much better

@tomsmart1970

9 ай бұрын

Tell it to Isaac Stern.

…outstanding surreal, yes brilliant thank you ~ this Lifetime 🥂 👊🔥 🪖