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Meeting with Luis Claudio Manfio in NYC
Meeting with Luis Claudio Manfio in NYC. Luis is a viola maker from Sao Paulo Brazil. We've corresponded over FaceBook and now have shared guinness's a great lunch, and lots of great making and selling tips and stories. Luis, Thanks …
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Stradivari Viola ‘Cassavetti’ 1727
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Joshua Bell Concert- Dueting with Bob Levine
March 3, 2015, Yesterday Joshua Bell came to Amelia Island for the Amelia Island chamber festival. It was fantastic. He played a full two hours including a set of encores from his Romance of the violin CD. Everyone was ecstatic. …
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Today I played a completed Howery Violin!!!
Finally after several years of study, 2 workshops, months of trail and error varnishing; I’ve finished Diana #4. She is varnished, setup, and played!!! Claude #3 will be completed later this week. I wasn’t content with the color and stripped …
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Claude getting some color
After many false starts and learning many new things about color theory, oil painting, glazing, etc etc my violins are starting to look like violins. …
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Launching Howery Violins Word Press site
Until this point in time, Howery Violins has had a face book presence at facebook.com/howeryviolins, now a WordPress site is being built to carry the blogs, news and happenings of William Howery’s journey in violin making …