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Jonathan Woolston makes and restores violins.
He divides his time between his Cambridge Studio where he makes new violins and the Royal Academy of Music in London www.ram.ac.uk where he helps to maintain and restore their fabulous collection of bowed string instruments. Most of the new instruments are based on Stradivarius models, including 2 award winning cellos for the Manchester Cello Festival. www.cello-festival.demon.co.uk
His career as Luthier originally started as a guitar maker for Fylde Guitars in Lancashire. www.fyldeguitars.com. This led indirectly to a Violin Making Degree from the Newark School in 1985. www.newark.ac.uk/violin. His work experience as a restorer has been accumulated in various ateliers most notably the Manhattan workshop of Jacques Francais where he worked under the scrupulous eye of Rene Morel with a team of world class craftsmen www.rareviolins.com.
