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.
- Average duration 3h30
- Languages spoken French, English, German, Korean
- Difficulty Suitable for all
From 08.12.2021 to 31.12.2022
At the end of this violin making experience, you will be able to choose whether or not to keep the violin you have been working on, so that you can continue to play on it and enjoy the sound you have given it.
The violins you will be practicing on are not just any violins. They are Passion Tradition Mirecourt violins that you can also find in the online store of the violin maker Guillaume Kessler. This is why it can be very interesting for you to keep it. However, you can also participate in the experience without acquiring the instrument.
Optional, if you wish to keep the violin: 650€.
- Mise à disposition des outils et de la matière d'oeuvre
- La possibilité de repartir avec son instrument créé pendant cet atelier
- Parking gratuit et repas
The workshop takes place over half a day, for a total duration of 3 hours and a half.
- The morning from 9am to 12:30pm
- The afternoon from 1:30 pm to 5 pm
- Immersion complète dans un véritable atelier de lutherie
- Vous pouvez repartir avec l’instrument sur lequel vous avez travaillé à la fin du stage
- Transmission d’un savoir-ancestral
Guillaume KESSLER - Lutherie d'Art
Guillaume Kessler is a violin maker specializing in the violin family. He creates, maintains, repairs and restores these instruments, which have been part of European classical music for five centuries and whose scope goes beyond borders. It is in his Strasbourg workshop that the magic happens, with the sound of the plane, in the middle of the shavings, where the smell of varnish and hot glue floats. Thanks to his meticulous approach, he integrates perfectly into this relationship that is woven between each musician and his instrument, sublimating the potential of expression of this symbiosis to its highest peaks.
Qualifications : Diploma in Art Making and Repair of the string quartet at the Newark & Sherwood Violin Making School in England.