Violin making is extremely popular at Halsway Manor. This weekend workshop gives maximum continuous time at the workbench supported by Neville Gardner, who has been teaching violin making for the last twenty years. He is joined by Corrie Schrijver to ensure that there is a ratio of 1 tutor to no more than 5 participants giving plenty of patient and knowledgeable support.
Arrive from 2pm Friday; depart by 1pm on Monday. See other violin making courses for longer workshop experiences.
A Folk Orchestra course will be running alongside this making course, so do bring instruments if you would like to join in with informal sessions in the evenings.
Who is it for?
This violin making weekend course is for all levels of ability and beginners are very welcome. As well as the violin family, support can also be given for making a Rebec (an ancient ancestor of the violin). The class size is limited so that participants have plenty of support from the two tutors. Before enrolling please contact Neville Gardner – [email protected] – to discuss the suitability of the course for your needs.
The Team
Neville Gardner was a University Lecturer and has been teaching violin making for twenty years.
Corrie Schrijver graduated from the Welsh School of Violin Making, with Merit in 1980. Since then she has worked at various workshops, notably spending 17 years in the Glasgow area, making and restoring for professional players and also maintaining part of the RSAMD collection of instruments and bows. In 2000 she founded “Bath Violins”, which was situated in Widcombe High Street in Bath. In 2012 she left her shop in Bath to join her engineering husband Frank in Brampton near Carlisle, previously home to the violin maker William Forster.