Violin Wood

With custom handcrafted instruments designed and built in the USA we are dedicated to a truly unique concept in manufacturingThe instruments created by premier electric violinist Mark Wood reflect over 30 years of painstaking.

Violin wood. GoldenTonewood is a young-modern and dynamic company dedicated to supplying products of the highest quality standards along with a desire for continuous improvement and it has become a leading company in the sector by distributing its products around the world. Violin makers prefer wood cut from old growth trees grown at high altitudes on northern slopes. Filter our inventory by density category.

Storing materials at a certain temperature and humidity before processing. Some violin beginners may have loads of questions about the sound of their instruments. The wood must be cut during the cold dormant months and stored seasoned in controlled conditions for several years.

It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular useThe violin typically has four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths with notes G3 D4 A4 E5 and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its strings. Maple Spruce and Ebony do the trick. The wood is classified in 6 different quality type.

We offer in our sawmill in Fertans more than 2 000 pieces for violins and violas and about 200 for cellos maple and spruce and other pieces for harpsichords guitars hurdy gurdies etc. The tailpiece may be wood metal carbon fiber or plastic and anchors the strings to the lower bout of the violin by means of the tailgut nowadays most often a loop of stout nylon monofilament that rides over the saddle a block of ebony set into the edge of the top and goes around the endpin. Density estimates are available for most tops and backs.

Maple is used for the body as is spruce and the two are often in a spruce top arching-maple bottom combination and ebony for the fingerboards. Contrary to the trend to use American or Canadian maple and maples of other sources I use only Bosnian maple this in spite of the difficulties in recent years of acquiring wood of known. The violin sometimes known as a fiddle is a wooden chordophone string instrument in the violin familyMost violins have a hollow wooden body.

To provide violin makers with great wood for great instruments. Does wood matter for violins. I personally select the wood that I use in my instruments on frequent trips to the violin wood centers located in Italy France and Germany.