ONE FORM TWENTY VIOLINS
A new project by FC-Fertans 2019 Idea and coordination: Bärbel Bellinghausen (Vienna) and Andreas Hampel (Hamburg). Template design: François Denis (Angers) What structural parameters determine a violin’s sound? A hands-on experimental approach. Twenty violin makers each make an instrument on the basis of the same outline In this project we…
KlangGestalten
KlangGestalten is a group of European craftsmen and craftswomen devoted to research, innovation, and the promotion of contemporary violin and bow making. Friendly collaboration and cooperative exchange among colleagues: that is the foundation on which the KlangGestalten group has built its success for over 20 years. Its members all endeavor…
Contakt Junior Berlin
In 2013, the KlangGestalten group initiated the “Con-Takt” and “Con-Takt Junior” projects. The latter event provides young, talented musicians eight years and older – after they have successfully passed an audition – with handcrafted master instruments and bows in 3/4 size. On the other hand, “Con-Takt” is for conservatory students.…
4 Brains – 8 Hands – One Masterpiece
4 Brains – 8 Hands – One Masterpiece is a group of four master violin makers who joined forces in a new mode of collaboration in 2014. The “quartet” consists of the violin makers Andreas Hampel (Hamburg), Felix Krafft (Berlin), Bärbel Bellinghausen (Vienna), and Andreas Hudelmayer (London). The four meet…
FCFertans
FCFertans is a workgroup of KlangGestalten makers who started meeting annually in 2010. In the idyllic setting of Fertans in the French Jura Mountains, the workshop enables us to discuss technical, practical matters directly related with our handicraft. We cook varnish, work on sound adjustment, insert bass bars, make pigments,…
Pop Up Shop for Contemporary Violins and Bows Vienna
The Pop Up Shop for Contemporary Violins and Bows was established by Bärbel Bellinghausen and Franz Übelhör in 2013 and took place in 2014 and 2019 at the Alpenmilchzentrale Wien.
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