Make your own instrument with Guillaume Kessler, violin maker in Strasbourg

Guillaume Kessler, violin maker, offers to share a unique moment with you in his workshop. First of all, you will discover violin making in which theory will be mixed with practice. You will be able to put on the apron and take in hand tools to experience, for half a day, the work that the violin maker makes on a violin. In the program, you will be led to assemble all the parts that make up an instrument, but also to learn and understand all the stakes involved in the sound and the assembly.

For a few hours, come and experience what it's like to be a violin maker and immerse yourself in the world of the workshop by taking in your hands the tools, woods and materials that Guillaume Kessler uses every day.

Thanks to Guillaume Kessler's know-how, you will work on a very important subject: the assembly of a violin. You will be able to take in hand an instrument on which you will carry out a complete assembly during the session. You will assemble the fourteen parts which constitute it while profiting from the accompaniment and the advised councils of the luthier of art, Guillaume Kessler.

Here are the different steps of the program that Guillaume proposes for the assembly of your instrument:

• Measuring, determining and marking the placement of the various components.
• Installation and lubrication of the pegs.
• Adjustment of the core inside the violin.
• Installation of the button.
• Securing of the tailpiece and tuners.
• Progressive stringing with bridge adjustment.
• Inspection and lubrication of the string passages.
• Tuning of the violin and stabilization of the tension.