{"id":405,"date":"2022-03-26T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T09:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/violintonarelli.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2024-02-26T21:55:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T20:55:36","slug":"my-violin-wood-balkan-maple-and-italian-red-spruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/violintonarelli.com\/en\/non-categorizzato\/my-violin-wood-balkan-maple-and-italian-red-spruce\/","title":{"rendered":"My Violin Wood: Balkan Maple and Italian Red Spruce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<strong>&nbsp;acoustics of any string instrument<\/strong>&nbsp;lies primarily in the&nbsp;<strong>material<\/strong>&nbsp;with which it is made.&nbsp;<strong>The classical Cremonese masters<\/strong>, since the time of the great&nbsp;<strong>Andrea Amati,<\/strong>&nbsp;deemed the best woods to be flamed Balkan maple for the back, ribs and neck, and red spruce from the Dolomites for the belly.&nbsp;<strong>The masters\u2019 experience, handed down and refined over the centuries, has established the best types of wood to utilise<\/strong>. As I am a Cremonese violin maker, I continue this tradition.<\/p>\n<h2>The beauty and the elegance of the maple<\/h2>\n<p>In terms of aesthetics,&nbsp;<strong>maple<\/strong>&nbsp;is characterised by its&nbsp;<strong>typical flame<\/strong>, which may be more or less pronounced. This figured wood is very much sought-after for refined works because it is partly responsible for the&nbsp;<strong>beauty of the back, ribs and neck of the instrument<\/strong>, in this case of the&nbsp;<strong>violin<\/strong>&nbsp;and its family.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>wood<\/strong>&nbsp;is soft, making it easy for violin makers to&nbsp;<strong>carve<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>sculpt<\/strong>. Maple can be plain or figured with flames or bird\u2019s eye. The tree can grow to great heights;&nbsp;<strong>120 species exist, 6 of which are in Italy<\/strong>. However, the one preferred by luthiers comes from the Balkans due to its sound qualities.&nbsp;<em>The wood I use on my instruments is aged for at least twelve years. That is why I write down the year of purchase on every piece of wood I acquire.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>The great sound quality of Italian red spruce<\/h3>\n<p>Until now&nbsp;<strong>red spruce has had no rivals in terms of wood for high quality instruments<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>The vibrations of the belly<\/strong>&nbsp;in red spruce are&nbsp;<strong>ideal<\/strong>&nbsp;and are&nbsp;<strong>unmatched<\/strong>&nbsp;by other qualities of wood. This sonorous wood, chosen for the tops of violins, violas, cellos and other string instruments used to&nbsp;<strong>perform classical music<\/strong>, features unique qualities such as elasticity and resistance to continuous strain. Red spruce&nbsp;<strong>trees can be up to 40 metres high<\/strong>; for making violins, the red spruce of Val di Fiemme is preferred.&nbsp;<em>Rumour has it that Stradivari used to wander on his own in the so-called Violin Forest \u2013 namely the Panaveggio Woods in Val di Fiemme \u2013 in search of the most suitable trees<\/em>: the centuries-old red spruce with fine and perfectly concentric growth rings, and lacking in knots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;acoustics of any string instrument&nbsp;lies primarily in the&nbsp;material&nbsp;with which it  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"yoast_head":"<title>My Violin Wood | Daniele 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