There hasn’t been a violin store in the centre of Merseyside since 1928 when George shut up shop.
George was famous for selling strings to musicians on the Titanic.
Now, however, there’s a new luthier in L1.
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Much news about Luthiers today. A Luthier is such a rare breed. I wonder if Michael makes those pocket violins (pochettes) that ballet masters used centuries ago. Emil Herrmann was a master Luthier. Hollywood should make a film about his life and it wouldn’t be boring: A German boy is trained by his father in the methods of violin making and analysis. Later he serves in WWI fighting for the Germans and is captured by the Russians. He befriends a music loving Russian General whose daughter ends up marrying him. In the maelstrom of the Russian Revolution, Emil and his wife escape the Russian Revolution and establish a Violin Shop near Carnegie Hall in NYC. I would not have been born had these events in Emil’s life not taken place. Thank you Emil and Kira and may the violin business in Liverpool prosper.
Bow repairers seem to be in short supply too.
I suppose it’s a question of how you define a luthier. I mean, there were at least two specialist violin shops in central Liverpool as recently as the late 1980s: memory is vague but I think one was on Maryland Street or thereabouts, as well as a very capable violin repair and sales department at Rushworth’s. Unless I imagined buying my cello and having my bow rehaired in these places…