Violins

It’s now almost 30 years since that first cittern (which I still play and record with) but I still get excited about every instrument that I design and build at Vector Instruments. I consider it a blessing to spend my days in a cloud of…

Lamario specializes in making string-quartet instruments as well as Just one of Lamarre’s innovations involves the double bass. A huge, generously proportioned instrument measuring over 1.9 metres, the double bass is difficult to transport,…

Zak’s studies in graphic arts at the Niagara Institute of Technology further developed his artistic ability. His need to experiment with his materials eventually led to instrument making. He studied with Peter Mach, a luthier in Aylmer, Quebec…

For the last thirty years, I have been working as a violin and guitar maker at my home here in the hills above St. Ann’s Bay on Cape Breton Island in Canada’s Nova Scotia. Although I specialize primarily in violins and secondarily in…

From an early age, Richard Benoit became interested in musical instruments and the sounds they produce. He found it fascinating to hear the sound result produced by musicians using an instrument made from elements of nature. He quickly developed a…