Useful Measurements for Violin Makers: A Reference For Shop Use

The author is through and thoughtful. I use his measurements in repairing student instruments. You should find any dimension you need here. His comments are thoughtful and if there are two sides to an issue he shows both. Recommended

I don't agree with the other reviews, besides a useful bridge template, there are general measures that every violin maker already know. I was expecting something more detailed, and only violin info. Of course there is nothing wrong with having celo o viola measures, but i didn't find them helpful.

There are MANY questions and VERY few obvious answers to the details in violin setup and repair. This book solves that problem. It provides the industry standards. Thank you, Mr Stroebel!

An excellent overview of all the general measurements with regard to a violin. Strongly recommended.

Good reference material for violin building. I have found the information on fractional size violins quite helpful, especially the bridge templates - as I have been doing quite a few new bridges for small violins lately. I wish that this book had more information about specific violas (I realize that there is no "Standard" size viola, thus my suggestion of specific instruments) Much of the information I don't find particularly helpful - but the info I need does the trick every time.

That is it doc. Just Useful Measurements.

A great book for who want to know more about violin, author also provided all the measurements where to place the bridge and tailpiece. I found this book is very easy to read and follow, good writing from the author.

Answered some of my questions as a person just starting in the violin/fiddle repair hobby. I expect more will be revealed as I understand more of what I am doing.

Has needed information to keep your violin in good condition and tone

Item as described. Delivery as promised.

The author is through and thoughtful. I use his measurements in repairing student instruments. You should find any dimension you need here. His comments are thoughtful and if there are two sides to an issue he shows both. Recommended

I don't agree with the other reviews, besides a useful bridge template, there are general measures that every violin maker already know. I was expecting something more detailed, and only violin info. Of course there is nothing wrong with having celo o viola measures, but i didn't find them helpful.

There are MANY questions and VERY few obvious answers to the details in violin setup and repair. This book solves that problem. It provides the industry standards. Thank you, Mr Stroebel!

An excellent overview of all the general measurements with regard to a violin. Strongly recommended.

Good reference material for violin building. I have found the information on fractional size violins quite helpful, especially the bridge templates - as I have been doing quite a few new bridges for small violins lately. I wish that this book had more information about specific violas (I realize that there is no "Standard" size viola, thus my suggestion of specific instruments) Much of the information I don't find particularly helpful - but the info I need does the trick every time.

That is it doc. Just Useful Measurements.

A great book for who want to know more about violin, author also provided all the measurements where to place the bridge and tailpiece. I found this book is very easy to read and follow, good writing from the author.

Answered some of my questions as a person just starting in the violin/fiddle repair hobby. I expect more will be revealed as I understand more of what I am doing.

Has needed information to keep your violin in good condition and tone

Item as described. Delivery as promised.

Does provide useful measurements, but was not really useful to me in the work I was doing. It has precise but narrow application and is for a person who produces violins- who already has/understands all other information regarding violin making. So, it is aptly titled, but I had hoped it would have a little more general information. I did not expect a comprehensive how-to, but would have liked a little more information on how the measurements are determined, drawn up, etc. I am more responsive to things presented visually rather than only numerically. My rating of it is based more on my expectation and experience of it than on its ultimate value as a source.

I got this for my husband since he does woodworking and I play violin. He wanted to see what the measurement were and how about getting a template for him to create a custom violin for me. we are still going over the violin making information, but its just full of information!!

Good info

One of the most valuable tools in the shop. We are referring to the book many times throughout our work week.

Classic. It is well organized and provides the detail luthier needs.

Along with "Violin Making" and "Cello Making" this book is a needed instruction manual for those who work to repair string instruments. NOT FOR BEGINNERS, one must have knowledge of woodworking as well as basic construction of string instruments. The series has many different books to choose from but this is a definite one needed for your reference library.

Henry Strobel's books are all useful for the violin maker and restorer and this book is no exception. It provides measurements of "standard" instruments of the violin family as well as other sizes, such as 3/4 & 1/2. The Template patterns are well drawn and suitable for making a set of templates from, the most useful perhaps being the smaller sizes which are less readily available commercially. There are notes regarding the bass bar, sound post and other subjects which will be useful to the repairer. There is some discussion of the wider bowed string instrument family. This is basically a workshop reference manual which most makers and repairers will wish to keep handy but never try to force any instrument into the measurments given, always take reference books as a guide not as the answer to every case.

Useful indeed although kinda random in it's layout.

Great!

Great book - and arrived promptly.

This book is very important to whom find start in built of violin or in the minimum to know how It is made and his math measure. Very good.

Useful

This is a must have for any person owning or working on the bowed string instruments. The only thing that could make it better, is if it had a conversion chart from metric to standard measurements for those who use that measurement system. A must have for any string player or Luthier.

For the hobbyist, the DYIS crowd. Alot of good info, on setups, bridge templates,spaceings, ect... He also has a good page on setting the sound post and its effects

Somehow, when I was an apprentice, I didn't pay nearly enough attention to standard setup. For years, I've done penitence for my folly by painstakingly collecting measurements from any authoritative source I could find. With some skepticism, I bought this booklet to enhance my collection. On balance, I'm glad I did. Strobel's data jibes quite well with what's taught at the Mittenwald school, and what I've learned from personal observation and such sources as Sacconi, Moeckel, the Hill books, and many VSA presentations. It's nice to have it all in one place and the author is free of any odd theories and strikes a sound, reasonable tone throughout. Measurements (in mm) are often given as ranges reflecting accepted practice, rather than a single number, as it should be. Now the caveats: For a shop reference, this book is shockingly disorganized. The whole thing has a hobbyhorsiscal do-it-yourself quality, more like a chat with the author and a couple of handouts than a book. You really have to dig to find its nuggets of wisdom, which consist, primarily, of two detailed tables of standard measurements for violin, viola, and cello, and two detailed scale drawings of violin and cello setup. You will also find full-size bridge-curve templates, a reasonable discussion of bridge, bass bar, and sound post fitting, and some hints on eliminating cello wolf tones. This material, if collected together, would occupy about nine pages. The rest of the book's 47 folios are filled with what I can only describe as junk, including egregious clip art, cartoons, portraits of Paganini, lists of maker's measuring tools (steel tape!), a table of the frequencies of standard pitches, a 200-word French-German-Italian-English dictionary of luthier's terms, a weak bibliography, and some exceedingly thin information about various historical instruments. Why did the author give us a full page of Ingres' often-reproduced Paganini portrait while cramming both of his valuable setup diagrams into a miserable half page? Overall, you can't go wrong for the price, and you might just need to know in a pinch, say, the saddle height for a cello (12.5 mm). But I hope that the author, who seems to have at least eight books to his credit, would consider hiring an editor for his next venture.

I have been repairing violins for about 10 years now, I reference this book daily, the measurements are a must for proper setup and most repairs. The other Stobel books are useful as well.

Good reference

This is a great book if you work on stringed instruments, from serious repairs to fixing up eBay finds. Even includes measurements for fractional sizes, so you can set up those tiny violins for all the Suzuki students.

This manuscript is very well written. I found that it contained a considerable amount of usefull data. I have purchased three of Mr Strobel's books and there is some overlap of data but they all contain information that helps clarify the secrets of the art of violin construction. Highly Recommended for aspiring Luthers. Larry Kistler GV - AZ

This little book is worth its weight in gold. It contains every measurement necessary for the correct setting up of instruments. It is an indispensable tool in my workshop. Definitely well worth the money.

Arrived in perfect condition and very fast.

Everything I need to complete my violin .

This little book has value out of all proportion to it's size it's like a fantastic little cheat sheet anything and everything you might need to check on the spur of the moment it's all there valuable and definitely worth having