Samlamingluthier

08/09/2025

A YouTube guide for changing your sympathetic strings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5VZA132Z00

16/06/2025

G Violone in progress

16/01/2025

A bridge replacement made & new sympathetics fitted for a Viola D’amore

24/12/2024

A very Freddie / Tielke oversized Violett back. Working on this in the evenings after the main project - An Ernst Busch Violone. I hope you all have a nice Christmas & a wonderful 2025, all the best to all of you.

02/02/2023

Harmonising with the amazing and utterly wonderful Liesbeth Cordia in Holland. Groote Kerk Maassluis evenementen

16/01/2023

Article Amendment - The The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York recently adopted my description of their 1726 Paulus Alletsee Englische Violet - This Instrument was previously listed as a Viola D'amore.
Some may say the distinctions are small, but the Instrument having more sympathetic strings than playing strings, a festooned outline, high ribs, and quite importantly, a string length of over 400mm, plainly put this in the category of Englische Violett (it retains the bracketed Viola D'amore for ease of search).

Thank you to Jayson Kerr Dobney for his open mindedness and time.

03/01/2023

Anechoic Chamber Englische Violett recordings.

Full video only on Youtube (Just a snippet uploaded to Facebook);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNguZHzhAto

To commission a similar Instrument, message me via one of the above methods or contact me here. For more information on the Englische Violett, please see the following video;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePuGP...

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A huge thanks to KEF Audio for the use of their Anechoic Chamber, sampling of their genuinely incredible range of speakers and just for being wonderful people to communicate with - If you're interested in fantastically high end audio, you can check out KEF's Speakers here;

https://eu.kef.com/

Thanks for your time.

12/12/2022

Very interesting day last Friday - Video out in a few weeks

22/11/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePuGPm9hIC4

My presentation at the London International Festival of Early Music on my newly completed Englische Violett. I describe some of the background and history of this fascinating Instrument, followed by a performance by the wonderful Rachel Stott. If you want to skip to the playing, it can be heard at 12:36.

Playing strings, of course by nristringshop.co.uk

www.instagram.com/samlamingluthier / www.facebook.com/samlamingluthierRachel's experience with the Instrument @ 11:07Rachel's performance @ 12:36 My Recital ...

01/11/2022

Julia Rebekka Brembeck-Adler playing Milandre a 4th lower than usual, on this 21 string Englische Violett at the .nationalmuseum
Full video @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fhGnuWP3N4
Please note Julia only had around 48 hours to get used to this Instrument!