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The violin, the ancient Italian art of the slow

The violin is one of those old jobs niche has been handed down from father to son. Great was the oldest families of violin makers. Perhaps it is not all in danger of extinction as more prestigious schools of Cremona Violin Making, attended by students from all over the world. But certainly not an art affordable for everyone. The undersigned has visited a couple of antique shops, craft makers in the province, out of time immersed in atmospheres, atmospheres well described by the director Claude Sautet in the film "A Heart in Winter". The personality of the maker is that of a private individual, at once humble and noble, his ingenuity never pompous nor arrogant. Talk little and do much.

Tools extreme sensitivity, violin, viola, cello are the most important components of the large family of arches, through which you can get subtle nuances of phrasing and musical intensity. Sound clear and cold the first, second warmer sound, low sound and deep third. The maker spends most of his days surrounded by files, gouges, chisels, dime, planks, strips , logs of spruce and maple Trentino. But it also paints, resins plants, minerals, essential oils mix in who knows how to find the right staff and effective formulas prepared with the meticulousness of an old apothecary. Because "good paint, as well as beautify the instrument, he must leave the sound to vibrate, in a sense, go with him, as he had to explain to an old luthier Induno Olona, \u200b\u200bnear Varese. "A bad paint instead oppresses him."

Main component of paints for strings is the root of madder , pigmented rhizome of an African plant already known and used by the legendary Antonio Stradivari . The chemistry of paints and its preparation is one of the great secrets of the handmade Italian violin makers.

Violins reached their final form and unsurpassed in the hands of families Amati, Stradivari , Guarneri, Bergonzi during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The ALI is the Association of Cremona Violin Making Italians, with the sole purpose of technical and cultural assistance of our members.

See the tools still gleaming and shiny fresh paint, exposed to dry, is to understand that their presence is enough to decorate rooms for workshops always warm, welcoming smell of old, where we were (and still are) famous in the world.

course of violin-making schools are useful as they shorten the path of individual research, but if the student is really good know that while following the dictates of the school must then detach and explore by himself, otherwise his product will become equal to that of many others. "We need to experiment, patirci above ..." said the old violin.

Yeah, patirci above, passion : terms that are think of a total and exclusive devotion was not without some suffering and hardship. But the inevitable obstacles and suffering are largely rewarded by the birth of real gems. The old violin maker does not like giving interviews, and although prestigious Italian and foreign customers of the most virtuoso of the violin, is able to say with modesty, "but this important Master please do not write, I treasure his friendship and his estimate and I will not hide behind his name for me to get dressed or even advertising. "

Pray, in these times of vulgar cattlemen who can be as discreet, modest and reserved?

To make a good violin takes at least two months working hard from 10 to 12 hours a day. For an even more purple. For cello need more than three months. We can therefore say that the maker is the craft (or art) of creative slow, in contrast with the speed and loudness of the present times. And is still heir to a time when art and craft were intimately and inextricably linked.

Not all performers have to be master luthiers tools arcs. But who knows how to play captures a feeling that more can put to good use in his work.

E 'was the case with the violin that I met in his free time from work he delighted to play one of his violins. I listened to him while performing the famous Devil's Trill Tartini was an experience that provokes shivers arcane, perhaps because the sound of the violin is so similar to the human voice. Or maybe because the Devil, witches and the violin are romantic myths that have long captured the popular imagination. And besides, Tartini and Paganini were owned by daimon (demon) of their virtuosimo. And what of the and gypsy violin, a perfect combination in sulfur smell?

fact is the greatest violinists who die but their legends are caught between the soundboard, strings and bows .

the young musical talent with the task of renewing and reviving. For the good makers, the task of preserving them. The makers, in their gestures caught in the grip of the sacred fire of their art has inspired many famous paintings and engravings (top heat while creating a painting by Stradivari).

More poetically melancholy instead the two portraits of James and Leandrino Bisiach, Milan's famous family of violin makers (whose founder was Leandro senior) in black and white engravings Deserters Welcome .

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