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The next meeting will be Sunday, Sept 22nd at 2 pm. Location: St. George’s School 4175 West 29th Ave in Vancouver This meeting will give members the opportunity to have their instruments played by string players and students that attend the School. The next big event is our Violin Makers Association of BC Exhibition. This year
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Hello!Before we announce our next in-person or online meetings for the year of 2024, here are two public talks given by Chris Waltham on the physics and math of musical scales. For those who are interested, note down the dates below! February 24th Location: TRIUMF – Main Office Building Auditorium4004 Wesbrook Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3
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Hello! It’s been awhile since our last meeting. Let’s meet on Sunday, November 26th at Tommy Douglas Library. We have booked a room from 12 pm to 2 pm. This time, we have invited 2 talented violinists, Matthew Yep Chironjeev Kanjilal Who will be there to give valuable feedback on your instruments. Please bring your
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Hello! Our next meeting will be at Tommy Douglas Public Library, beginning from 12 pm until 2:30 pm. It will be in the community room. Address: 7311 Kingsway, Burnaby BC V5E 1G8 Please come join us! Bring any instruments you’re currently working on, or even instruments you have already finished. There will be more interesting
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We had the pleasure to set up a booth at Douglas College to show the engineering aspects of violin making. With a simple setup, we demonstrated resonance at different frequencies with Chladni figures. This is also how we tune the violin plates!
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Our June meeting was a great success with 16 members and guests, a birthday cake, and plenty of new violins. The attendees enjoyed playing four recently made violins, including a first! We also also had some finely crafted scrolls and there were some custom tools on display including thicknessing gauges, planes and closing clamps. Our next meeting will
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We had a great meeting with a local professional luthier stopping by with four violins a viola that he had made. About 10 members turned out including a nice mix of our experienced and new builders. In total we had eight instruments displayed, including an instrument with fancy inlaying.
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We had a great turn out with four new violins. We had some spectacular instruments highlighting the fine craftsmanship of the makers. Two young students showed off their first instruments and we had the plates and ribs from a violin in process. We were even treated to some fine violin playing in classic, Chinese, and
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Meetings have continued through the fall and winter here in Vancouver. At our February meeting we had a good turn out of 10 members. Its an exciting time as there are two new members making their way through their first violins. We put four member-made violins through their paces and a look a poster of the ‘Il
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We had our first meeting after the summer break this past Friday. The meeting had a good turn out with 8 or so regular members and a guest who found out about the club through this website! Also, we had a variety of Strad and Del Gesu models from three of the more active members.
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