MCLA to Offer Violin Repair Workshops| 11:46AM / Friday, June 10, 2016 | |
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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts once again will welcome violin repair expert Hans J. Nebel to campus as he presents four week-long workshops in June.
The workshops will include “Introduction to Proper Violin Set-Up” June 6-10, “Tonal Improvements” June 13-17, “Fitting New Upper and Lower Block June 20-24, and “Crack Repair and Crack Reinforcements” June 27-July 1.
Nebel is the fourth generation of violin makers in his family, and a graduate of the Bavarian State School of Violinmaking in Mittenwald, Germany.
Nebel started his professional career at Rembert Wurlitzer, Inc., in New York City, where he worked for 18 years. He became a long-term disciple of Maestro S.F. Sacconi, the universally acknowledged dean and originator of modern repair technique and restoration. On the suggestion of Dario D'Attili and Maestro Sacconi, he was appointed head of the restoration department at Wurlitzer, a firm that was considered the Mecca of the violin business in the United States.
Since 1974, Nebel has headed his own business in New Jersey, where he specializes in major restoration and the sale of quality stringed instruments and bows. He accompanied the New York Philharmonic on its tour of the Far East as a caretaker of their fine instruments, and recently was invited by the Liuteria Parmense to teach master class courses in Violin Restoration in Parma, Italy.
Nebel, who has taught violin repair at several universities over the past 40 years, is a founding member of the American Federation of Violin and Bowmakers, a Founder of the Violin Society, and a member of the International Society of Violin and Bowmakers.
For more information, go to http://www.mcla.edu/Academics/continuing-education/violinrepair or contact Elizabeth Leibinger in MCLA’s division of Graduate and Continuing Education, 413-662-5575.
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