Field Trip to Zachary S. Martin, Luthier WorkshopToday we went on a field trip to Zachary S. Martin, Luthier Restorations in Pawtucket.This is a workshop specializing in repair & restoration of contrabass and cello, by Zachary. (He is also known as Gus, so we’ll call him Gus!) Gus showed us the workshop and gave us a basic but thorough explanation of how string instruments are made and repaired. He showed us all the different stages of the whole process. Gus also told us that he always loved to play music and make things out of wood, and that’s how he became a maker of string instruments.
Then Gus let us do recordings in the shop while he worked on instruments. There are so many interesting sounds happening! He also introduced us to his friendly dog and let us all play his contrabass. The recordings we made will be used in our piece for the final performance on 6/2. Thank you very much Gus, for such an inspirational tour.
Here are some photos of our trip by Brandon L, and more photos on CMW’s Flickr in the slideshow below!
     
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