Opus 46 - Baroque Violin |
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The instrument seen here is based on a late baroque model, like those made in Mozart's time. The ribs, scroll and back are made of a single piece of European curly maple; the two-piece soundboard is made of European spruce. The flecked reddish-orange varnish has been applied in varying hues. The neck and tailpiece are inlaid with boxwood; and the nut and saddle are made of ivory, the fingerboard of ebony-covered maple, the pegs of ebony, and the endpin of polyester. ![]() ![]() ![]() Denis Cormier ![]() ![]() Denis Cormier Montreal, Quebec 1991 Born into a family of fiddlers, Denis Cormier was exposed to the violin from an early age. Focusing on classical-violin making, he apprenticed under Frédéric Boyer in Paris for two years and also trained under the Dutch master Willem Bouman in The Hague. After returning to Montreal, he opened a workshop in 1980. What he builds, says Cormier, is a sound. This sound is, in fact, a special one: his modern and baroque violins are played by professional musicians in Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan. Denis Cormier has made a number of instruments for the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, the Orchestre métropolitain, the Studio de musique ancienne, and the group I Musici.
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