| Chicago School of Violin Making - http://www.csvm.org/ The Chicago School of Violin Making focuses its instruction on developing basic skills necessary for graduates to enter the field of violin making and repair as professionals. - Read more |
| Musical String Instrument Repair Minnesota State College - http://it.southeastmn.edu/programs/musicalstringinstrumentrepair/index.asp?programID=10 You will have the option to choose between violin repair and maintenance or guitar repair and building. You can expect hands-on learning and a good deal of one-on- one time with your instructors. - Read more |
| New World School of Violin Making - http://www.newworldschool.cc/home.html The New World School of Violin Making (NWS) hopes to instill in each student the knowledge and skill needed to become a violinmaker or repairperson. - Read more |
| North Bennet Street School - http://www.nbss.org/Programs/index.asp?pageaction=ViewSinglePublic&LinkID=80&ModuleID=17 The Violin Making and Restoration course was established in 1984. We have one of the few, full-time instrument making programs in the United States. - Read more |
| String Technical Degree Indiana University - http://www.indiana.edu/~vlnshop/ Indiana University's Violin Shop is both a working and a teaching shop. It is particularly well suited for students hoping to combine violin making and repair with a course of study in music or liberal arts. - Read more |
| Violin Craftsmanship Institute of the New Hampshire University (USA) - http://www.learn.unh.edu/violin/faculty.html Workshops in Violin Building; Violin Maintenance and Repair; Bow-making; Bow Repair; and Bow Rehairing, and Machine Tool Techniques with world renowned expert faculty members. - Read more |
| Violin Making School of America - http://www.vmsa.net/ Peter Prier & Sons Violins operates not only a violin-making school, opened in 1972, but a bow-making school. Starting with four students, the violin-making school can accommodate 25 pupils, while the bowmaking school has a capacity of eight. Prier, who was born Germany, came to the U.S. in 1960 after graduating from the Violin Making School in Mittenwald, Germany. |
Violin school offers college alternativeTwo hours into a typical morning in the beginner's room at the Chicago School of Violin Making, several aproned students bend into pools of light at their work tables. They're filing, cutting, scraping or otherwise honing the near-white pieces of wood that will become for most of them their first violins. |
