Man With a Van: A profile of Oliver Rodgers

Man With a Van: A profile of Oliver Rodgers

Joseph Curtin, The Strad, November 2006 One Saturday morning in 1994, retired engineer and violin acoustics researcher Oliver Rodgers parked his Ford pickup outside the renowned Philadelphia firm of William Moennig & Son. The shop was closed that day, but a...
Jim Woodhouse and the Violin Bridge

Jim Woodhouse and the Violin Bridge

Joseph Curtin, based on an article published in The Strad, August, 2005 At the stately, historical William Penn Hotel in the once-sooty, now cleanly-scrubbed city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, members of the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers gather for their...