Fiddles in the Rafters!


Fiddles in the Rafters

Fiddles in the rafters! Fiddles on the walls. And a library that goes back half a century at The Chimneys Violin Shop, boing Springs, PA. What a thrill to be able to visit a shop to share the story of pioneering luthier Carleen Hutchins with a luthier Nelson Steffy–who, along with his mentor Ed Campbell, founder of The Chimneys, not only read and valued the acoustical work of Hutchins and Saunders, they developed their own set of violinmaking manuals that incorporate the acoustics of tuning plates and other methods that apply science to the art of violinmaking.

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