The Conservation, Restoration, and Repair of Stringed Instruments and Their Bows

Volume 1: General Issues Concerning Stringed Instruments and Their Bows

• Foreword
  Kim Kashkashian
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• The IPCI and the Conservation of Pernambuco
  Yung Chin
• General Introduction
  Tom Wilder
• Note on Terminology
• Introduction to Volume 1

Part 1. Pernambuco and Its Conservation

• Pernambuco: The Tree that Brings Forth Music
  Haroldo C. de Lima
• Conservative Milling of Caesalpinia echinata for Bow Making
  Charles Espey
• Substitute Materials in Bow Making
  Benoît Rolland
• Using Pernambuco Scraps for Tailpieces and Pegs
  Eric Meyer
• Alternative Woods for Bow Making
  John B. Aniano

Part 2. Conservation, Restoration, and Repair

• Some Thoughts on Instrument Restoration
  Charles Beare
• Museum or Concert Hall: Pragmatic and Aesthetic Views
  Robert L. Barclay
• Observations on the Most Common Criteria for the Restoration of Stringed Instruments
  Marco Tiella
• Issues in Restoration, Repair, and Conservation
  Andrew Dipper
• Reversibility: A Fragile Concept
  Robert L. Barclay
• On the Distinction between Making and Restoring Violins
  Jan Baptista Špidlen
• The Danger of Learning Restoration Techniques from Books
  René A. Morel
• Interpreting Manuscripts and Understanding Techniques of the Past
  Koen Padding
• Restorers and the History of Italian Violin Making
  Carlo Chiesa

Part 3. History, Collections, and Connoisseurship

• Violin Restoration: A Historical and Commercial Survey
  John Dilworth
• Reconstructing the French Viol Bow
  Ian Watchorn
• Techniques of Bow Making in Germany
  Klaus Grünke
• English Bow Makers of the Dodd and Tubbs Families
  Philip J. Kass
• The Invention of Tradition: The Price of Stradivari Violins
  Benjamin Hebbert
• Linking Collection History and Conservation History
  Florence Gétreau
• Appraising French Bows on the Basis of Design and Condition
  Jean-François Raffin
• An Overview of Bow Tips from Tourte to Sartory
  Matthew R. Wehling
• On Determining the Authenticity of Musical Instruments
  Friedemann Hellwig
• Ethics, Evidence, and Authentication
  Laurence Libin
• Some Things You Should Know Before Purchasing a Cremonese Violin
  Roger Graham Hargrave

Part 4. Documentation

• Documentation of Stringed Instrument Repair
  Robert L. Barclay
• Bowed String Instrument Photography: Lighting Configurations for Standard Shots
  Tucker Densley
• Computed Tomography for Assessing and Documenting Stringed Instruments
  Steven A. Sirr and John R. Waddle
• Laser Scanning for Documentation and Analysis of Stringed Instruments and Bows
  James Ham
• The Documentation of Stringed Instruments
  Hans Rudolf Hösli, Marc Soubreyan, and Tom Wilder
• The Documentation of Bows
  Paul Martin Siefried and Tom Wilder
• Measuring and Graphing Bow Graduations, Low Point, Camber, and Balance Point
  Elizabeth Vander Veer Shaak
• Condition and Intervention Reporting for Stringed Instruments and Bows
  Tom Wilder

Part 5. Materials

• Chemical Safety in the Workshop
  Monona Rossol
• Wood Properties and Bowed String Instruments
  David W. Grattan
• How Changes in Humidity Affect Instruments Made of Wood
  Petr Bucinsky
• Animal Glue
  Velson Horie
• Cyanoacrylate Adhesives in Bow Making and Repair
  Jane L. Down and Robert L. Barclay
• Characterization of Ivory, Bone, Horn, and Tortoiseshell
  Thomas Stone
• Cleaning and Gluing of Bone, Ivory, Horn, and Tortoiseshell
  Robert L. Barclay
• The Structure of Mother-of-pearl
  René-William Groppe
• The Care and Conservation of Mother-of-pearl
  Padraig ó Dubhlaoidh
• Properties of Horsehair and Rosin
  Florence Billaud de Kerret
• All that Glitters Is Not Maillechort
  Sylvain Bigot

Part 6. Infestations

• Woodworm Infestations in the Wood Stock: Identification, Treatment, and Prevention
  Viola Ziessow
• The Carpet Beetle: A Destructive Pest in the Instrument Case
  Padraig ó Dubhlaoidh
• Anoxic Methods for Controlling Insect Infestations in Musical Instruments
  Robert J. Koestler

Part 7. Surfaces

• The Nature of Coatings and the Care of Historic Varnishes
  Mel J. Wachowiak
• Damages and Alterations in the Transparent Coatings of Musical Instruments
  Vera de Bruyn-Ouboter
• Patina and Authentication
  Tom Wilder
• Cleaning and Retouching Violin Varnish, with a Discussion of Colour Theory
  Stewart Pollens
• Cleaning and Its Hazards
  Padraig ó Dubhlaoidh

• Contributors to Volume 1
• Bibliography
• General Index
• Documentation CD-ROM

Volume 2: Stringed Instruments and Techniques for Their Conservative Restoration and Repair

• Introduction to Volume 2
• Instrument Schemas
• Concordance of Instrument Terms

Part 1. Basic Maintenance, Setup, and Preventive Procedures

• On Adjusting the Sonority of Stringed Instruments
  Pierre Caradot and François Varcin
• Making Soundposts Using a Drill and Router
  John Dailey
• Soundpost and Bridge-foot Reinforcement Veneers
  Joseph Curtin
• The Wolf Note
  Norman C. Pickering
• Reduction or Elimination of a Violin Wolf Tone
  Paul Wiessmeyer
• Wolf Suppression for Cellos: Adjusting the Soundpost and Installing a Tunable Suppressor
  Christopher Dungey
• Tips and Best Practices for Restorers and Musicians
  Guy Rabut and Arthur Robert Toman
• Comparative Review of Edge Fillers
  John Montgomery
• Rare-earth Magnets
  Joseph Grubaugh and Sigrun Seifert
• Shop Tips for the Violin Maker
  Christopher White
• Making and Sharpening Double-Sided Scrapers
  Jonathan Cooper

Part 2. Counterforms, Moulds, and Casts

• Making Ultra-thin Latex Film
  Michael Rhonheimer
• Sandbagging Techniques Using Bulgur
  Alex Grant
• A New Look at Arching Correction before Making a Mould
  Joseph Grubaugh and Sigrun Seifert
• Localized Corrections in Top and Back Plates before or instead of Making Plaster Moulds
  Amos Hargrave
• Making a Mould with Acrylic
  Quentin Playfair
• RTV Rubber Moulds and Polyurethane Reproduction Casts
  Sharon Que and Gregg T. Alf
• Vacuum Techniques in Plate Restoration
  Andrea Ortona
• Building a Better Neck-graft Counterform
  Janet Toon

Part 3. Surface Interventions

• Materials and Methods for Cleaning and Maintaining a Finish
  Padraig ó Dubhlaoidh
• Cleaning Instruments Using Methyl Cellulose and Deionized Water
  David Polstein
• Chemical Methods for Surface Cleaning of Musical Instruments Undergoing Restoration
  Claudio Canevari
• Retouching Varnish on Stringed Instruments
  J&A Beare Ltd

Part 4. The Body

• Less-invasive Repair of Worm Tracks
  Andrew Ryan
• Gluing Cracks Using the Block-and-wedge Method
  Florian Leonhard
• Closing Problem Cracks with Parchment
  André Lavoye
• Repairing a Crack in the Top Plate of a Violin
  Francisco Hervás Hita
• Repairing Cracks
  Jean-Jacques Fasnacht
• Techniques for Repairing Cracked Ribs
  Andrew Carruthers
• Stabilizing a Plate Using Hot Wax and a Plaster Mould
  André Lavoye
• Restoring a Shortened Instrument to Its Original Size Using Thin Shavings of Original Material
  Gregory Walke
• The Faster and More Precise Patch
  Peter Moes and Wendela Moes
• A New Look at Patch Fitting
  Joseph Grubaugh and Sigrun Seifert
• A Device for Rejoining Plates
  Robert Cauer
• Reinforcing Cracks with Parchment
  Florian Leonhard
• Using Paper to Reinforce Cracks
  Matthias Michael
• Care and Conservation of the Double Bass
  James Ham

Part 5. The Scroll and the Neck

• Making Spiral Bushings
  Christopher Germain
• Reinforcing Peg Holes with Spiral Bushings
  Florian Leonhard
• Reinforcing Pegbox Walls with Conical Bushings
  Florian Leonhard
• Reinforcing Broken Pegboxes with Graphite Composite
  Robert Cauer
• Kevlar-reinforced Bushing
  Christopher Edel
• Reinforcing a Cracked Pegbox Wall with a Carbon-fibre Bushing
  Jerry Pasewicz
• A Mathematical Relationship between Neckset Parameters
  Koo-Young Chung
• A Guide Frame for Setting the Neck of a Violin, Viola, or Cello
  Workshop of Hieronymus Köstler
• Bending a Neck
  Christian Schabbon
• Resetting a Neck with a Neck-heel Splice
  Christian Schabbon
• A Less-invasive Neck Graft for Cellos and Basses
  Jörg Andreas Franke
• Double Grafting a Broken Bass Scroll
  Juan Antonio Mancheño Sánchez
• Stabilizing a Neck
  Thomas Oliver Croen
• Adjusting the Scoop of a Warped Cello Neck and Fingerboard
  Francis Morris
• Fingerboard Gluing: A Controlled Alignment System
  Thomas Oliver Croen
• Veneering Fingerboards with Ebony
  Louis Gaucher

• Contributors to Volume 2
• Index to Volume 2

Volume 3: Bows and Techniques for Their Conservative Restoration and Repair

• Introduction to Volume 3
• Bow Schemas
• Concordance of Bow Terms

Part 1. Basic Maintenance, Setup, and Preventive Procedures

• Rehairing: Preliminary Bow Checkup
  Sylvain Bigot
• Rehairing Parisian Style
  Sylvain Bigot
• Head-First Bow Rehairing
  Rodney D. Mohr
• The Ferrule Wedge
  Klaus Martin Kuhn
• Irreversible Damage to Bow Heads
  Stéphane Thomachot
• A Recycling Technique for Ebony Repairs
  Graham D. Welsh
• An Unusual Ebony Fill for Bow Restoration and Repair
  Peg Baumgartel
• Shop Tips for Bow Repair
  David H. Forbes

Part 2. The Stick

• The Bow: Linking Musician and Instrument
  Benoît Rolland
• Camber
  Michael Yeats
• Recambering and Straightening Bows
  Sylvain Bigot
• Bushing Bow Sticks with Pernambuco
  Corrie Schrijver
• Fitting a Vuillaume-Voirin Style Half-round Coulisse on a Butt Graft
  D. William Halsey
• Rebushing a Violin Bow
  R. David Tamblyn
• Bow Handle Repair Using Cyanoacrylate Glue
  Robert L. Ray
• Frog and Screw Fitting
  Roy G. Quade
• Repairing the Broken Neck of a Violin Bow with a Dovetail Scarf Joint
  Thomas Dignan
• Repairing a Snapped Bow with a Double Internal Conical Graft Bushing
  Randy DeBey
• Restoration of a Fractured Bow Head
  Michael Vann
• Grafts and Corruption in Bow Restoration: The Partial Head Graft
  David Orlin
• A Quick and Precise Method for Cross-grain Head Splines
  André Klaassen
• Masking Damage to the Underside Profile of a Bow Head
  Rodney D. Mohr

Part 3. The Frog

• Metalsmithing Basics: Fabrication Methods for Round and Octagonal Button Rings, Replacement Ferrules, and Metal Headplates
  Roger Zabinski
• Metal Analysis of a Simon Ferrule
  Roger Zabinski
• Eyelet Replacement
  Rodney D. Mohr
• Extraction of a Broken Eyelet Shank from a Frog
  Jean-Marc Panhaleux
• Repairing Frog Damage Due to Rusted Screws
  David Orlin
• Repairing Cracks in the Underslide Area of the Frog
  Morgan Andersen
• Non-invasive Thumb Projection Repair
  Rodney D. Mohr
• Replacing a Broken Tongue
  Jerry Pasewicz
• Restoration of a Broken Tongue
  Peter Oxley
• Restoring a Broken Frog at the Ferrule
  Jean-Marc Panhaleux
• Replacing the Silver Ring of a Parisian Eye and Making Double Pearl Eyes
  Paul Siefried
• Replacing a Pearl Eye in the Frog: An Improved Method Using Hydrochloric Acid
  David Hawthorne
• Replacing Missing Tortoiseshell with Dyed Optical Epoxy
  Jerry Pasewicz
• Three Methods for Preserving Details in Old Bows
  Richard Riggall
• Copying a Historical Frog and Button
  Paul Siefried

• Contributors to Volume 3
• Index Volume 3