Exploring lost violin making practices: introduction
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2023
- Boussu Inside Out - Exploring forgotten violin making practices
This video introduces the RUclips channel that displays videos of the construction process of violin family instruments after unaltered originals by the 18th-century maker Benoit Joseph Boussu. The replica instruments were built by Geerten Verberkmoes, employing methods most likely used by Boussu and which differ significantly from the "Cremonese method". The channel also includes videos of the replica instruments being played by musicians Ann Cnop, Shiho Ono and Mathilde Wolfs.
The research on the life, instruments and working methods of Boussu was performed by Verberkmoes as a PhD study at Ghent University and School of Arts Ghent.
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Linda o seu trabalho......
Hi Claudio, thank you for your kind comment! Glad to hear you enjoyed the video!
Best regards, Geerten
Fantastic!!! Is there a book that follows this series?
Hi Fred, thanks for your kind comment.
You can read my PhD-thesis on this research here:
geertenverberkmoes.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PhDthesis_GeertenVerberkmoes_A4_drukversie_15-10-2021.pdf
Kind regards,
Geerten
I only skimmed your thesis, and I am neither historian nor luthier but, it seems to me that his second wife was the violin maker. I wonder what Marie Anne Jugier's father did as a trade. Just a thought.
Hi, thank you for your comment and interest in my research! The option you mention was considered too. But there are simply too many arguments against it. I will mention some (not all). Firstly, M.A. Jugier was coming from a lower class than Boussu, her father was a labourer. Given the fact that the first child of Boussu and his second wife Jugier was born out of wedlock, their forced marriage was not planned. I state in my thesis that she was probaly the care taker for the children of Boussu's first marriage.
M.A. Jugier was much younger than Boussu, and from their marriage in 1744 until her death at the age of 41 in 1759, she was almost continuously pregnant. She died during giving birth to her last child. So, I suppose she did not have much time or energy to make violins in between her care for the children.
Then, several Boussu instruments, in consistant style, are known from after 1759, the year Marie Anne Jugier died. So, she could not have made these. And there are several more reasons for her not to be the main violin maker of the workshop.
But... as I mention also in my thesis, I do not rule out the possibility that she, or the family's children, helped in the workshop.
During the years, I thought of this "female maker" option quite a lot. One of the jury members of my thesis mentioned it as well. However, we should not project our 21st century post modern views on equal man/woman roles to the 18th century, how much we want women to be emancipated now or then.. Gender roles were simply different then.
Not this maker but there are some theories that catherine guarneri would help in the workshop... To explain some inconsistencies. And they had no children. I wouldn't be surprised if some did help in different degrees... Especially the poorer the family. But many households went under the heads name because that was the name with the highest prestigieux.. Also if it were a woman... Their work wouldn't sell well in that era... Woman had to fit into social norms... so if it were me I would use my husband's name as an alias.
Now days I'm happy to put my name on my violins!!! But he also brought up children as a hinderment to some... Yes I can second that. I am the mother of 7... And it is so hard to balance children and violins. I deffinantly don't make as many as I could if I worked full time.
@@umiviolalefut1593 You are right about Boussu's wife and children helping in the business... please read page 294 of my thesis, where I contemplate on this theory. You can find the thesis (in English) here:
geertenverberkmoes.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PhDthesis_GeertenVerberkmoes_A4_drukversie_15-10-2021.pdf
Have a nice day!
I will happily read it!... In fact I will probably print and keep in my own records.
As a violist... I am captivated by the brescian instruments... Who methods also differed from the cremonese process.
@@umiviolalefut1593 Thank you for your interest in my thesis, I hope you will enjoy reading it. Yes the Brescian instruments are really special, but in style and regarding the way we think they were made. Have you ever played one?
I went to see an exhibition of Brescian instruments in Brescia, I guess around 2007. Really inpressive!
Have a nice day