Beauty and elegance of musical instruments

What a great joy to play this beautiful instrument

And what a bliss to be able to listen to this deep voice

Musical instruments like these take generations and generations to come to this level of elegance and refinement. Craftsmen would work hard all their life, to be able to produce such a balance, not only visually but also with the sound quality, of course.

The warmth of the wood and of the varnish, the fluid curves, the symmetry, all that will suggest an avatar of the human body, from which it has most probably been inspired. Dedicated musicians will spend their life with this instrument, practicing long hours, daily.

The wood has been very carefully selected, dried for many years before being shaped and covered with lacquer. The different woods come from trees who had grown in many forests of the world. These forests were filled, from dawn to dusk, with the thousands songs of birds, a music that might still be echoing in the soul of the instrument.

When you realize that just a little part of a tree, which has been carefully chosen for his acoustic potential, will be transformed in a superb hand-made work of art, where precision rhyme with proportion, giving something highly aesthetic, which will first conquer the heart of the musician and then the heart of millions of listeners through its voice, you can't help but wonder how much love and sense of economy has been generated.

One may feel a little sadness in thinking of the beautiful trees cut to collect their wood, but what about the music that will flow into the heart of so many human beings, plants and animals too? There is very little waste in this process, if the luthier is a man responsible and with deep knowledge of the trees.

That said, these people who have learned through years of observation, looking, listening, feeling, are quite rare nowadays. Most of this production has become an industry directed to satisfy an expanding market. Is excellence anymore the real inspiring guide? But for those who still live with such a conviction, they will understand in looking at these two musical instruments, the spirit of devotion that fills the heart of true instrument makers, and players.

L'Homme d'Art