Luthier online, some advices by the master luthier Federico Cesarini, aimed at professionals and lovers of electric and acoustic musical instruments.
You can comment and ask for curiosity about your personal instruments.
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For those looking for a professional quality bridge, with seasoned woods and superior performance to those built up to now, we recommend visiting this artisan shop. Bridges are made for cello of all kinds (Belgian, French and innovative) and with different seasoned woods:
S + for seasoned wooden … Continua a leggere
Do you want to build a custom guitar in our workshop? These are the guidelines for choosing wood, you can certainly use them for personal amateur projects as well.
There are many woods and often you don’t understand anything, just because industrial marketing prefers to have us ignorant. The major industrial groups manufacturers of musical instruments partly to safeguard themselves … Continua a leggere
In my experience of steel frets for guitar I have seen many types, some named & nbsp; “extra hard”, other “stainless steel” & nbsp; or others. The problem with steel is that it can have different hardnesses, depending on its code. Some fret makers are content to use “soft” steels while others use truly hard metal grades.
I use Jescar … Continua a leggere
Steinberger have various types of compatible strings, for both bass and guitar. There are Steinberger strings with double ball end, that is with the double ball (like the esxl110 D’Addario), alternatively you can mount the standard strings, being careful using some tricks. I recommend the second route, because the double shot strings are badly found and cost twice as much.… Continua a leggere
There are four variants at the Cesarini Custom Shop, choosing a bone nut must be considered, since the “expense / yield” is different.
The choices in ascending order in terms of remainder and cost are:
1 – pre-worked nut in “light” bone (white color)
2- nut to be worked in cow bone (white color)
3- nut to be worked in … Continua a leggere
The world of chemistry has revolutionized the concept of adhesive and glue in all trades, including the sector of violin making. Until the early 1900s, animal bone glue by bone (strong) or by tissue (weak) was used, so the classical lutherie of the 1600s could only adopt this type of solution.
The animal glue has no excellent properties, since it … Continua a leggere
We can guarantee the BONUS STRADIVARI 2018, until funds run out (10 million euros). The plafond is little compared to possible questions, so we advise you to immediately request a quote from Atelier Cesarini, starting already from January to look for your instrument.
Bonus 2018:
This argument is certainly very long to deal with, I will only give some guidance indications that can be an help especially to musicians, music lovers and parents of music students.
Giving value to old instruments, luthier’s services and other is an objective that Atelier Cesarini pursues from the beginning, the first step was to create a very detailed luthier … Continua a leggere
The opening of an instrument is always possible, sometimes uninvited because it is invasive, but which, on the other hand, is often indispensable, and above all, can … Continua a leggere
The question is, how much to spend for a children’s musical instruments?
50,00 euro, 100,00 euro, 200,00 euro, 500,00 euro, 1.500,00 euro, 2.500,00 euro, 10.000,00 euro, 20.000 euro?
An example of studio violin 3/4 size on pic.
Parts of the instrument that need to be standard and well-regulated are not few. As a result, an bowed instrument, beyond its cost, must … Continua a leggere
