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  • A classroom at the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, with walls lined with stringed intruments.
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  • Beekman cutting horsehair from a hank to use to restring a bow.
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  • Violins in a rack in Beekman's shop.
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  • A bow's horsehair waiting to be attached to a bow.
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  • A bow's horsehair wedged into the tip. The tension will be adjusted with a screw attached to the frog at the other end of the bow.
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  • Beekman cutting a wedge to hold the horsehair into a bow's tip.
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  • Beekman selecting horsehair from a hank to use to restring a bow.
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  • Stephen Beekman resetting the neck of a violin in his shop in Peace Dale, Rhode Island.
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  • Stephen Beekman resetting the neck of a violin in his shop in Peace Dale, Rhode Island.
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  • Stephen Beekman resetting the neck of a violin in his shop in Peace Dale, Rhode Island.
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  • Beekman trying out a newly strung bow.
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  • A group of bows, covers in shop dust, awaitign repair.
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  • Beekman preparing to attach a bow's horsehairs to the adjustable  frog.
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  • Beekman seizing horsehair for a bow. This end will be wedged into the bow's tip.
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  • Stephen Beekman in his shop in Peace Dale, Rhode Island.
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  • Stephen Beekman resetting the neck of a violin in his shop in Peace Dale, Rhode Island.
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  • Stephen Beekman resetting the neck of a violin in his shop in Peace Dale, Rhode Island.
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  • Stephen Beekman in his shop in Peace Dale, Rhode Island.
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  • A man looks at violins in a display case. The Chamber of Commerce of Cremona showed many antique and valuable string instruments from Cremonese makers.
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  • Tetsu Suzuki, a maker and resstorer of string instruments and bows, plays a double bass.
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  • Zoran Markowi?, of ZMT, a Slovenian maker of tailpieces, plays a double-bass. Unlike traditional tailpieces, ZMT tailpieces have a longer distance from the bridge to the tailpiece for the bass strings.
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  • Zoran Markowi?, of ZMT, a Slovenian maker of tailpieces, plays a double-bass. Unlike traditional tailpieces, ZMT tailpieces have a longer distance from the bridge to the tailpiece for the bass strings.
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  • Zoran Markowi?, of ZMT, a Slovenian maker of tailpieces, plays a double-bass. Unlike traditional tailpieces, ZMT tailpieces have a longer distance from the bridge to the tailpiece for the bass strings.
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  • Zoran Markowi?, of ZMT, a Slovenian maker of tailpieces, plays a double-bass. Unlike traditional tailpieces, ZMT tailpieces have a longer distance from the bridge to the tailpiece for the bass strings.
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  • Jean Yves Tanguy, a French restorer of musical instruments, in the process of retrieving a sound post that has slipped out of place. The sound post is wedged in place under the bridge, between the face and back of the violin, to transmit sound from the strings to the back.
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  • Zoran Markowi?, of ZMT, a Slovenian maker of tailpieces, plays a double-bass. Unlike traditional tailpieces, ZMT tailpieces have a longer distance from the bridge to the tailpiece for the bass strings.
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  • Zoran Markowi?, of ZMT, a Slovenian maker of tailpieces, plays a double-bass. Unlike traditional tailpieces, ZMT tailpieces have a longer distance from the bridge to the tailpiece for the bass strings.
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  • A man examines an instrument in the booth of French dealer Jean Yves Tanguy.
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  • A pestle and sheet of plate glass used for grinding pigments by hand in the booth of Germany's Kremer Pigments. The pigments are ground from traditional materials to fill the  needs of restorers of instruments and fine art.
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  • Gordon Carson of Mountain Voice Soundwoods in Valemont, BC, Canada, with samples of spruce. Wood for musical instruments is split from the tree trunk, and adjoining planks are numbered so the grain will be bookmatched in the finished instrument.
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  • Visitors try instruments at Carriage House Violins, from Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts.
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  • Instruments from the Brobst Violin Shop in Alexandria, Virginia.
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  • Instruments in the booth at Paul Dulude, a Boston dealer in musical instruments.
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  • Visitors examine violins. Violins at Mondomusica ranged from basic student instruments to rare vintage violins.
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  • The bookmatched figured maple back of a cello from Chacoone Co, in Nagoya.
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  • Visitors shop for wood at Tone Wood International. from Cremona.
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  • A visitor tries a violin by Florian Leonhard Fine Violins of London.
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  • Japanese Soloist Madoka Miki plays a violin from Chaconne Co. Ltd. from Nagoya. Several Japanese firms exhibited at Mondomusica.
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  • A violin from the collection of Nick Frirsz, of Frirsz Music. The violin was made in 1947, and was taken apart and smuggled out of Hungary when the family escaped the communists.
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  • Finger planes for sale. These small brass-bodied planes are used to shape small and curved surfaces.
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  • A visitor tries a violin from Scott Cao Violins, from Campbell California. Cao is in the center of the frame, in the green sleeveless sweater.
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  • A visitor plays a violin from Scott Cao Violins, from Campbell California.
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  • Maple tonewoods for sale. Maple is often used for sides and backs.
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  • Jay Haide, a dealer in fine violins, in his booth.
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  • A member of the staff at Paul Dulude, a Boston dealer in violins, plays.
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  • Visitors framed by violins discuss the show.
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  • Luthier Gabriela Guadalajara shows a viola da Gamba to a show visitor.
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  • Pieter Affourtit plays with one of his snakewood baroque-style bows with a "pike" or "swan-bill" head.
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  • A contemporary lute made by Gamut Music of Duluth, Minnesota.
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  • A couple examines the scroll of a violin in the booth of the American Federation of Viollin and Bow Makers.
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  • Violin maker Paul Davies, left, of Spur Violins in New York, discusses his new line of electric violins.
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  • Johnny Weizenecker, a music student at Gettysburg College, tries a violin made by contemporary Genovese luthier Pio Montanari in the booth of Boston's Pal Dulude.
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  • Paul Dulude, right, shows a violin to Johnny Weizenecker, a music student at Gettysburg College.
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  • A woman looks at a violin displayed by the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers.
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  • A woman examines a violin displayed by the Chamber of Commerce of Cremona. Cremona, home of Antonio Stradivarius, has long been a center for violin making.
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  • Joseph Regh, of Regh Violins, shows one of his bows. Regh was a physicist who worked for IBM, and brings his scientific training to his violin and bow making.
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  • Bows made by Joseph Regh, of Regh Violins. Regh was a physicist who worked for IBM, and brings his scientific training to his violin and bow making.
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  • Baroque-style violin bows made of snakewood by Pieter Affourtit of the Netherlands.
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  • Edgar Russ, an Austrian-born luthier with a workshop in Cremona, tunes a cello.
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  • Vintage guitars for sale at Retrofret, in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood.
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  • Vintage guitars for sale at Retrofret, in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood.
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  • Vintage guitars for sale at Retrofret, in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood.
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