Old English violin repair
A man brought in this old violin, which has been in his family for 3 generations.
It’s rib was broken at the bottom and the bottom block cracked in half. Some sort of repair was attempted on it in the last 50 years according to the owner (please don’t do that if you have an old violin that’s broken - take it to a professional luthier!)
When I took the top off to start the repair, I found an amazing connection to an English luthier in the past who had done repairs on it in 1890!
