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DIVERTIMENTO
ISSUE 42,   Aug 2020

Dear Customers                                 

Due to Stage 4 restrictions, the shop is now closed to the public for the duration of the lock down period.

However, we will be monitoring our web site, email and phones for enquiries and stock orders and will respond promptly. So we can still supply your requirements for strings, shoulder rests, and other accessories, through online or phone orders. 

Instruments or bows in need of repair can be sent to the shop by courier or perhaps uber, or through the post in a mailing tube for bows. Please ensure that you enclose your contact details and the work required to your instrument or bow. We will then advise on repairs and time frames by email.

We will also be continuing our weekly free bow rehair offer, for musicians and music students whose income has been affected by the pandemic - so be sure to ring us to make your booking. As above, bows will have to be sent in to us.

Stay safe everyone!

On a more pleasant note, we have an exciting new project in the workshop - a violin being made as a collaborative project by our luthiers. Although qualified violinmakers, the workshop staff at Grant Violins are normally neck deep in restoration projects, which use a variety of different skills to making a new one. So this violin may take a little longer to complete than normal, as we won’t get much free time to work on it; and it will of course have to be put on hold now for a few weeks. But it should be a fascinating and fun process to follow - here are a couple of pictures of the early stages! 
The two-piece front and back slabs of the violin, each being glued along a centre join. The piece in front (spruce) will be the front of the violin, and the piece at the back (maple) will be the back.You can already see what beautiful flaming (stripes) the maple has!  
Don't try this at home! :)
Testing the strength of the centre joint.
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