{"id":417,"date":"2022-03-26T10:57:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T09:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/violintonarelli.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2024-02-26T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T20:50:05","slug":"the-secret-recipes-of-the-varnish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/violintonarelli.com\/en\/non-categorizzato\/the-secret-recipes-of-the-varnish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Recipes of the Varnish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Varnishing musical instruments to be used in classical music is an important and delicate process<\/strong>. The varnish protects the wood and the&nbsp;<strong>combination of substances used for the varnish must maintain the elasticity of the wood<\/strong>&nbsp;in order to enhance the acoustic properties of the instrument. After having acquired the basic notions of varnishes for&nbsp;<em>violins, violas and cellos,<\/em>&nbsp;makers usually go on to create their own recipe<strong>. This is not only a question of adding the precise quantities of resin to a given mixture; the maker must also know how to evaluate the many factors and conditions that are involved in the process<\/strong>. Every maker has his own varnish recipe and this may account for the usage of the word \u201c<strong>secret<\/strong>\u201d when referring to varnish.&nbsp;<strong>Stradivari<\/strong>, for example, managed to create secret recipes containing rare ingredients, the details of which are still unknown.<br \/><em>In keeping with the methods used by classical Cremonese makers, I prepare two types of varnish: one is oil-based, the other alcohol-based.<\/em>&nbsp;The varnish I use depends on the final result I want to achieve.<\/p>\n<h2>Wood and varnish preparation<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Before varnishing the instrument, the wood \u2013 being a living material \u2013 must be properly treated<\/strong>. To allow a violin under construction to have just the right amount of varnish absorption in the wood, a sealer must be applied.&nbsp;<em>The sealer also plays an important role in terms of aesthetics and acoustics, and for this reason I use natural substances.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The preparation of the varnish mixture is complex and involves selecting a few resins<\/strong>&nbsp;amongst the hundreds of varieties present in nature.&nbsp;<em>I prefer using the highest quality natural resins such as shellac, juniper, mastic and others for alcohol-based varnishes.<\/em>&nbsp;For linseed oil based varnishes, I use amber or rosin as the extreme elasticity of linseed perfectly complements the&nbsp;<strong>brittleness of amber and rosin<\/strong>. When the two resins are melted at high temperatures and cooked for the required times, the resulting varnish protects and enhances the underlying wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varnishing musical instruments to be used in classical music is  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"yoast_head":"<title>The Secret Recipes of the Varnish | Daniele Tonarelli Master Violin Maker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Varnishing musical instruments to be used in classical music is an important and delicate process. 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