As part of my tour of instrument makers’ workshops, I made a late winter stop at The Violin Making & Repair program at the North Bennett Street School in Boston’s North End neighborhood. The program accommodates ten students in the three year program who are passionate about working with their hands, using techniques traceable back to the great Antonio Stradaveri.
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Ryan Hamonds uses a small hand plane to create violin parts at the North Bennett Street School, Boston.
The classroom workshop of the Violin Making and Repair program at The North Bennett Street School, Boston.
Violin Making & repair Department Head Roman Barnas at the North Bennett Street School in Boston, refinishes an old violin
Student Chris Henderson of The Violin Making and Repair program at the North Bennett Street School uses an array of sharpening stones to maintain his carving and cutting tools.
Gabrielle Kramer is a full time student in The Violin Making & Repair program at the North Bennett Street School, Boston. She chisels the back piece of a violin.
