My Music Makes People Happy! Repairing Violin for a Player Who Counts On It For Mental Wellbeing
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- Master violin maker and restorer Olaf Grawert talks about how one of his clients uses her violin to help her with her mental health and make people happy at the same time.
A client recently came into my studio, because her violin had fallen apart. She was quite upset because playing her violin really helps her with her mental health, and her violin is her constant companion.
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00:00 Introduction
01:59 Opening the Violin
03:06 Repairing the crack in the back and gluing
07:50 More Gluing
10:15 Closing the Violin
15:14 The finishing touches
20:32 Trying out the violin
23:00 The Players Story - Conclusion
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I struggle with mental helth problems too. Depressions and PTSD.
I used to play Cello but i had to sell it 9 years ago to pay the healt insurence. I miss my instrument so much!
A year ago i started building my own Cello. As a former cabinetmaker i know how to use tools and work with wood. But it is a long way.
Like for the lady in your video the playing is so importent, the working with wood had become such an important way for me to deal with my bad memories and emotions. Thank you for sharing your client's story. Greetings from Switzerland
Your client is certainly not the only musician whose life is made worth living because of their instrument :) I know my violin has been a shining star in my life lately, and although I'm going through some stuff right now, at least the time i spend with my violin feels good !
Bicycles and guitars are my top 2 mental health tools.
Riding my bike definitely helps keep in balance as well...
I relate a ton to your client here. I used to busk a great deal, at one point paying my rent just busking and the responses I would get could be very, very uplifting. It also connected me with people who I collaborated with, building me an entire career of playing and teaching string instruments.
Busking ALSO exposed my violin to a lot of heat, sun and humidity that wasn't ideal for it and the neck began to fall towards the instrument. It never got as bad as this, and I reset it before anything awful could happen.
Thanks, Olaf, for another awesome video!
It's so much more than just fixing an instrument. The back story to this repair was lovely, Olaf. Yes, music does indeed heal. I watched a moving documentary the other day - Alive Inside - where Dan Cohen revitalized the minds of those with dementia by the simple act of getting them to listen to the music of their youth via the iPods he distributed. Their sudden 'aliveness' had to be seen to be believed!
I realize her preference for anonymity, but I would have loved to hear one or two of her pieces. Very nice video. Thanks.
So glad you could help them Olaf!!!❤
The double purfling on this instrument i so pretty and elegant. Thank you for sharing the story as well. You are such gentle soul. I bet that was a big part of my she trusted you to repair the instrument.
Omg😮 the damage! Incredible video! Very sweet kind and generous of you🤗
I’m sure the repair bill will be a good motivator for keeping the instrument in the case when not in use. lol
More then $1000?
@@anjinsanx44 unfortunately yes...
Luckily she gets government support here in Australia,.so that paid for it.
I loved this video and relate so much to the player of this violin! My violin is also my emotional support when I get depressed or anxious (if I remember to play it 😅 sometimes if I get too anxious or depressed, my loved ones remind me to go back to my music). Thanks for showing all of the care and detail you put into the violin and I can't wait to watch more!
The amazing thing here is what music does for everyone, each of us has our own attachment, want , need, enjoyment of it, and the many ways that is soothes and injects enjoyment to all. Thanks for sharing. ECF
It's clearly the product of a German violin factory production line, employing only semi-skilled, working only on an instrument, not creating an entire instrument... no corner blocks (external mould). Its best destination is the workshop stove! Nice looking wood, so I'd be looking at rebuilding, with ribs fitted with corner blocks, and neat head and tail blocks.
Using an old violin to refine the plates and ribs, is a good thing... I could work with that. The tell-tale ugly German button is obvious, and will forever betray its German origin, as a factory fiddle.
Yes but it's all some can afford. It's either a factory instrument or no instrument at all.
Also, family members sometimes buy instruments to encourage others to play but a factory instrument is all they can afford. But it can have sentimental value due who gave it to them.
Good morning from Baltimore Maryland thank you for inspiring me to build my own Violin your so mellow and I need some of that have a blessed day be safe!
I am a professional carpenter and have built guitars just always wanted to try to do a violin!
And it’s going to take me years just too build all the right clamps and tools so gonna be awhile lol!
Go for it!!!!
Olaf very nice work you do. I'm glad you were able to help this player by fixing her violin. Would love to one day meet and chat with you about your field I find it very interesting and rewarding watching you do this craft.
I did what you did. Over a three month period, I made three videos and didn't realize that I wore the same shirt, so some of my subscibers busted my nuts about only owning one shirt.
Well done!!
Hi Olaf, that was a brilliant repair on such a critical job!
Well done.
Good on you, mate!
I've been really looking forward to this restoration since it first came in. 👍👍
Very interesting! Thank you!
good evening from malaysia olaf!
Music is all about our mental health, in my opinion there is no other use for it but to stir human emotion.
If there is, I don't know what that purpose is. I was just thinking about this throughout your video.
I think we all suffer from mental health issues to some degree and music calms the savage beast.
I recently got a fitness watch that measures my stress level. I was playing my guitar and singing for myself and my watch started buzzing like crazy telling me to calm down 😂 I thought I was having a good time!
Anyhow just my thoughts your videos are something I watch for relaxation. Thank You!
Beautiful video! Inspirational.
Very informative
As a Violin Maker/ Luthier, it is part of our work, to stress to the player,
how important it is , to take care of our instruments.
There was absolutely no excuse to leave it outside.
As musicians, none of us are fully sane, but I take care of mine always.
Please hammer this into her head!
Maybe she needs to be treated as a child, to understand
the importance.
I might even tell her, that if it’s left out again,
“I will not repair it!”.
If you put it this way, it means you have a lot to learn too... about life...
I’m sure she watched this video. I’ll bet she won’t let this happen again. But if she does, Olaf will fix it again. He’s that sort of bloke.
I have 19 guitars and I wanted to protect all of them so I have bought cases for about 15 of them. Since then they live in their cases for the most part, where as when I had only two or three guitars they were always out, and I always played every one. Cases are good, but they make you not play them as often as the instruments that are just out.
I know what you mean!
I always suggest that string players leave their music stand out in the open and the case nearby so they still get reminded.
Love the sound of that one.
These last couple of violins getting destroyed from a little bit of humidity demonstrates the biggest weakness of hide glues. All it took was a little bit of moisture in the air to soften up that glue, causing it to fail. You might want to look into using glues designed for the art restoration field. They have many that are fully reversible but use something other than water to do it. Then you could make those instruments impervious to humidity while also not adding something that can never be undone.
Glue! What about loving and appreciating your instrument?
It’s your responsibility to make sure, that your
instrument is handled and stored properly.
i want to apply for the olaf violin repair school please, money is no object. lol u are truly a master,,, now if this was in america there be a tax on every violin there,,,, in america we are all about taxes, taxes, taxes...lol
Nice fix Olaf
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See you at 07.30 😁😆
Wow really looks like very special instrument.. I can see that it is a biv part of her life.
I love your vids, me n the wife just watched this vid and loved it, BUT, can you do a vid on how you make your coffee...lol, would love to see what kind of coffee bean you use and the whole process.....thanks in advance
He has shown us how he makes his coffee on one of his older 'A day in the life of...' videos. It's at the start of the vid (obviously).
Have trawled back through a few and this one ('Spend 2 Days in Olaf's Violin Workshop Early 2022') shows the process, though there's one where he explains how he makes his bulletproof coffee. Maybe Olaf can help here?
Sibelius 'Valse Triste' was one of the pieces (or is that now 'songs' as seems to be the norm here on RUclips) Stanley Kubrick had in mind for, but didn't get used in the film 'The Shining'.
When you have a repair this extensive & the instrument is so important to the player, do you give them a loaner until the repair is finished?
I thought about that too. I’ll bet he did.
689RSW Extensive violin neck repair. Please, please watch this video. I know someone has already asked you to watch a video from the Rosa String Works. I watched all 4 episodes and nearly died from laughing at the silly man trying in vain to take the top off the violin using heat, while expounding on his opinion that hide glue is basically rubbish and titebond is the best thing since sliced bread. In the above video he's at it again spending ages trying to remove the fingerboard from a violin, again using heat and getting nowhere. He then resorts to planing it off (while I was shouting at him to use water.) When he's down to just glue he starts using a scraper before finally admitting defeat and using water to see if it will go "gummy" so it can be wiped off. Guess what?! Away went the glue while I was in hysterics. I'm sure the rest of it will see him doing other crazy stuff to the poor instrument. He calls himself a luthier. I disagree. Hes a twit! Please try to find time to watch this. I'm sure you'll find it very entertaining! I love your videos by the way, and you're a pretty good violinist too. Keep up the good work 👍😊
Good gracious, that man is a menace and shouldn't be allowed in the same room with a violin.
May I ask what varnish you used on the bouts of the bottom plate joints? Curious, sometimes joint open up on Violins, Violas, Cellos, and Bass, would it always be good to apply a varnish like that after cleaning and re-glueing an opened joint? I live in a very dry climate.
How dose your wood work bench not scratch and dent the instruments is it the carpet mat I know you put it down softly but that’s crazy
Wouldn’t Titebond Original be a more reliable choice than Hide Glue ?
How can you tell if hide glue was used or not? Can you see a difference or is it only on how the instrument opens?
It's how the instrument opens... Other glues don't allow the would to move and breath... Thus causing the wood to split.
Each glue is different, but pva glue which is very commonly used kinda feels stretchy when splitting...
Each glue has different characteristics.
Olaf, do you know who the maker of this violin is? I have a violin that is similar to the violin in this video.
Olaf, you have lots of violins out in your shop... How do you keep them from getting damaged by humidity?
When it's too humid I loosen all the strings a little bit and put the valuable ones in cases
She needs to buy a new violin. I have 5 keyboards, 3 guitars (one electric, one Acustic, one digital) , a pair of bongos, and a pair of congos, but only one violin. I'm 64 and could die at any time, but, yes, i am planning on buying another violin!!!! I just started playing. I am really getting into my violin on day 5!
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A good reason for the carbon graphite instrument.🤔
Olaf, is it ever a situation the back plate is so badly damaged that it can’t be fixed and needs replacing?
Hello Olaf. I have a question: Why are the cleats carved after they are installed? Is it because their thickness is necessary to stabilize the crack during gluing, or it it just easier to thin and bevel them after gluing? With my limited skills, I think I might want to shape them before I glue them, but since I've never tried it, I don't know! Thanks. I enjoy your videos.
It's better to glue them as a larger piece, so the clamping goes all the way to the edges.
So bigger clamping surface as well as more support for the clamped piece.
@@AskOlaftheViolinmakerThat makes sense. Thank you.
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I've seen this video before. Why is it being presented as a new video?
It looks like this is a more edited version of the previous video. I believe he took out all of the extra clients out of his day to make it shorter? And focus more on this one client. Thats my guess! :)
What you remember is him making a start on this instrument repair in a previous video in which he said that he would do a follow up: ruclips.net/user/clipUgkxsG2gLbqm11AbIyb36IvZJeaP4VYe5q3L?si=yREuaLcNzjobxKLM
I was wondering the same. Thanks for the explanations.
Hey, Olaf. You really need to tell this woman that if this violin is her lifeline, she should take better care of it. I keep my violin in bed with me, so i have to keep my wife in a damp and dusty root cellar.
Amazing