Masters of Tonewood: The Hidden Art of Fine Stringed-Instrument Making Greene Jeffrey
The wood used by master craftsmen to create many of the world's legendary stringed instruments--violins and cellos, mandolins and guitars--comes from seven near-mythic European forests. In his latest…
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The wood used by master craftsmen to create many of the world's legendary stringed instruments--violins and cellos, mandolins and guitars--comes from seven near-mythic European forests. In his latest book, Jeffrey Greene takes the reader into those woodlands and into luthiers' workshops to show us how the world's finest instruments not only contribute to great musical art but are prized works of art in themselves.Masters of Tonewood describes the "hidden life" of stringed instruments, beginning with the unique wood, expertly chosen and sometimes cured for decades, that gives them voices that rivet audiences. Greene takes us to forests in Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Romania, Poland, and the Czech Republic. We are introduced to the acoustical and aesthetic properties of the spruce that Stradivari treasured, and the mystery of why just one in a thousand maple
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