During his sixteen-year association with Bein & Fushi in Chicago, violin maker Michael Darnton had the opportunity to examine, photograph, and measure hundreds of Classical Period violins. He’s been a Guild member for a total of twenty-seven years, and is a past GAL columnist and convention speaker.
▪ bio current as of 2011
By the same author:
- Reviews: The Conservation, Restoration, and Repair of Stringed Instruments and Their Bows- edited by Tom Wilder
- Questions: Violin refinish
- The Power of Circles
- Tales of Topographic Arches
- Classical Cremonese Violin Soundhole Placement
- Questions: Restoration Labels
- Review: The Art of Violin Making by Chris Johnson and Roy Courtnall
- Letter to the Editor: Price of Vintage Instruments
- Violin Views
- Violin Views
- Violin Views
- Violin Views
- Violin Q & A: Violin Volume/Defective A String/High Gloss Oil Finish/Nicks
- Questions: Martin Finish
- It Worked for Me: Strap Button
- Violin Q & A: Post Crack/Clear Varnish/Small Violin
- Violin Q & A: Quarter Sawn Wood/Thickening Alcohol Varnish Solution/Chin Rest/Lake Pigments
- Violin Q & A: Raised Bridges/Fitting New Pegs/Loose Bass Bar/Fingerboard Tan Streaks/Russian String Setup
- Violin Q & A: Arching Style Effects on Tone
- Violin Q & A: Dark Sounds/Violin Books
- Violin Q & A: Peg Issues/Estimates Billing
- Violin Q & A: Glue Types/C Bout
- Violin Q & A: Top Removal
- Violin Q & A: Pitch of the Neck/Elmers Glue/Poplar
- Violin Q & A: Nussbaum/Damaging Repairs/Bow Work
- Violin Q & A: Polish/Saddle Height/Seam Glue/Beginner Stylistic Mistakes/Spotty Oil Varnish
- Violin Q & A: Fingerboard Step/Rib Junction Angles/French Belgian Cello Bridges/Oil Varnish Zits/French Polish Cracks
- Violin Q & A: E String Breakage/Neck Removal
- Violin Q & A: Violin Needs/Wood Grain
- Violin Setups, Part Two
- Violin Q & A: Bass Bar Maximum Depth/Tap Tone Plates
- Violin Q & A: String Recommendations/Purfling Grooves
- Violin Q & A: Neck Thickness/Tightness/D String Reach/Tilt Of Fingerboard
- Violin Q & A: Instrument Tone/Reaming For Pegs/Yellow Cold Glue/Stains
- Violin Setups, Part One
- Violin Q & A: Spiral Bushing
- Chemical Stains
- Violin Q & A: Fingerboard Flatness/Leaning Bridge/Hide Glue
- Violin Q & A: Violin Reconditioning/Bass Bar Springs/Neck Surface
- Violin Q & A: Ebony For Pegs/Italian, German, French Building/Violin Societies/Oil Varnish
- It Worked for Me: Stained Levis
- Violin Q & A: Asymmetrical Graduation/Oil Varnish Natural Drying/Baroque Fiddles
- Violin Q & A: Removing Fingerboards/Sound Hole Size
- Meet the Maker: Michael Darnton
- Violin Q & A: Bridge Cutting/Fiddle Points/Overhanging Fingerboard/Epoxy Superglue Repair Uses
- Violin Q & A: Wolf Note/Tone Longevity/Violin Finishes
- Condit’s Clamp-O-Rama
- Violin Q & A: Violin Pics/Aligning Ribs/Revarnishing Quality Instruments/Buzz
- Attic Strads, and Why What’s Worth Something Is Worth What It’s Worth
- Graduation Marking Device
- Violin Q & A: Cooking Varnish/Fiddle Neck/Neck Finish Treatment/Peg Shaper
- Violin Q & A: Adjusting the Peg Shaper
- Violin Varnish
- Violin Q & A: Fingerboard Tearouts/Resharpen Peg Reamer/Tailpiece Saddle/Fingerboard Top/White Bridges
- Violin Q & A: First Fiddle Reading List
- Violin Q & A: Nut Slots
- Violin Q & A: Fiddle Fingerboard Contour
- Violin Q & A: Bridge Back Tilt
- Violin Q & A: Fingerboard Tearouts
- Violin Q & A: Resharpen a Reamer
- Violin Q & A: Tailgut Length
- Violin Q & A: Neck Pitch
- Violin Q & A: Stain For Bridges
- Violin Q & A: Cooking Varnish
- Violin Q & A: Broken Necks
- Violin Q & A: Finish for Necks
- Letter to the Editor: Strad Article in AL#17
- Retouching Violin Varnish