What is this Strange Mark on his Great Grandmothers Violin?

[@rippinstock]

In case no one has ever told you, you’re a treasure to the human race. Never stop drinking good coffee and saving old instruments. Many Blessings to you good sir!

[@CrampedGrampy]

I have no explanation for tearing up every time I hear a stringed instrument played ever so well. I love the sound of a violin. Thankee for the trip through the repair process. Continue doing what you do so very well.

[@samrodian919]

What a beautiful mellow sound that fiddle produces! Nicely done Olaf!

[@ellisc.foleyjr9778]

I love the fact that you preserved the Thumb marks. and coated them to insure that protection. I love the history, and the fact that there is a young girl that will carry the Violin's history onto the next generation what a legacy! fantastic! thanks for sharing !God speed. ECF

[@celosy]

What I find very special with you is how deeply you love and respect the life each instrument has had before it came into your hands. You were so very gentle and kind to this beautiful violin, with never any thought of erasing the marks left by years of love and use. It's a joy to know that it will go on to be loved and used again, hopefully for many, many years.

[@janlesinski4719]

I love your care about the history items are nothing without history.

[@OldManse09]

Thank you for the story. And thank you for the beautiful work. It sounds wonderful.

[@edmiller4149]

We need more Olafs in the world ! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful world of violin.

[@keyem4504]

It's heartwarming to see how much you love these instruments you're working on.

[@publicclammer]

Your videos always make me feel better and more positive!

[@Danilyn_Livao]

I’m so impressed by your talent!👏 Restoring a violin is no small feat, but you made it look so effortless. The final result is beautiful-keep sharing these amazing transformations! 🎻🧡

[@OneLoneMan]

After watching this video. I think it is great what you do with these instruments. You give them new life and preserve them for future generations to enjoy.

[@shubus]

What a great story! The meticulous care in restoring this violin will indeed make it last another 100 years.

[@JeffTiberend]

I don't know why the algorithm suggested your channel. But, I'm happy that it did. Thank you for a wonderful video. You have a new subscriber. ❤

[@keithrosenberg5486]

The history of the violin is fascinating!

[@danceswithaardvarks3284]

Fantastic story and sympathetic restoration, thanks for sharing it.

[@DrakeN-ow1im]

Great work, lovely story. Thank you for telling it to us.

[@rikspector]

Olaf, A wonderful story and it sounds:) like the instrument will have a new life, thanks you you! Cheers, Rik Spector

[@Patrick-eb7um]

Musical instruments; worthy of restoration, what a noble endeavor. Well done sir, you are a craftsman. Would like to observe how you color match the finishes.

[@mellissadalby1402]

Hi Olaf, I was enjoying playing my Salvatore Lombardi Violin today. I hope all is well with you. Oh yeah, you and your son really do a super job on fitting pegs, the pegs on both of my Grawert Violins are smooth as butter.

[@knsubramanian9837]

Olaf!Sie ist eine sehr gut Geige artz!.Danke vielmals!.

[@rossthefiddler5890]

Beautiful story. Hopefully the great great grand daughter does play it. It's disappointing when an instrument is restored only to be put back a cupboard again. I wish I had my grandmother's violin, but one of her sisters gave it away to someone else. I've got my mother's though. 🙂

[@johnjankiewicz3478]

I could see how you were emotionally involved with the story. Wonderful experience. Thank you.

[@MichaelM69]

Wonderful video as always Olaf! Was just thinking, is there any way you could make a video or a short on how we can polish our own string instruments at home? Would be awesome to see

[@Riverdeepnwide]

Beautiful story. Every mark reflecting the movements and physical presence of the player. Small hands, perhaps longer or thicker fingernails, did she trim her nails often before playing I wonder, leaving a scratchy sharpness? Maybe larger hands, short fingernails on that French violin.. Each of us leaves our own mark. My great-grandmother had left her glasses after passing away. Many years later, I found them in my father's things after his passing. The crazy thing was, the lenses prescription was the same as mine at that time. I wore them for several years, thinking each day of the connection to an ancestor I had only heard of and never met. Yet still, we shared something through time and inheritance.

[@snowman333-]

found the video quite entertaining. good job, sir

[@rogerray7820]

Beautiful story and beautiful in violin. I am 70 years old and have my great grandfather's fiddle. It has been refurbished several times and still plays great. I've been working with my grandson on playing so he will get it when I'm gone. I think it is a good thing to past things on with as much history as possible. Sorry I called it a fiddle, but that's what it is in the mountains of North Georgia.

[@tapiolankiira1968]

Amazingly sensibe, respectfull and humaine touch

[@TheUncleRuckus]

Great video as always Olaf 👍👍

[@HL-ci5lr]

Wonderful story. Great sounding violin and very nice work.

[@lkj974]

Nice story. Thanks for this.

[@johnallright6847]

Wow what a good interesting video , good knowledgeable violin man and a lovely sounding violin.

[@jamesarnett4129]

What a great story, I subscribe & looking forwards to ore stories.

[@Brasslite]

Sounds glorious.

[@laidman2007]

Thank you, Olaf.

FREE BIRD!!! Play Free Bird...... Seriously you're a craftsman and we love your videos....

[@loatfield]

Lovley story.

[@iancarr7629]

Lovely story. If old violins could talk! Lev,s Violin by Hellena Attlee is a good read.

[@abbyag]

great video as always!

[@jerryshore8374]

Exciting to bring back interesting things, like violins, to life after a lot of years. Makes you feel like your time was very well spent.

[@aloberdorf4579]

I've been told by Luithers (?) I've met, that Old Wood creates Sound that new wood can not duplicate, Full, Rich and Mellow.

[@ronwade2206]

1970, I was given the family Viola. I retired recently by Force of Osteoarthritis after 58 years of Free Universities with cash and Grants, my students get ten times what I got and my Ministry through the House of David. I have played for 4 Presidents and a dozen world leaders when the EU was formed and document signed at Thunderbird, missions in Cuba, Romania, Bulgaria all from Phoenix and Idaho. Teaching since junior high, played in Phoenix Symphony at 14. So yeah 👍 🎻

[@MrCayoCoco]

The case shown at 1:55 is exactly like the one that belonged to my Dad's violin. I'm in the process of restoration, along with another one that was hand made by my Grand Uncle in Boston in 1915. Dad's was purchased at Sears in Nova Scotia, maybe 1930. It appears to be of French origin. Lots of fun. I played a bit at one time, so I'm hoping to re-learn a few of the old tunes. See how things progress. (haunted basement next Halloween)

[@UncleDansVintageVinyl]

What a wonderful story! Thank you!

[@davidsunderland8063]

🙂 I have purchased a few instruments lately that are unfinished so I can play around with varnish, I have also found a type of wood that is resonant as a thick piece, I am going to carve a very unique 9 strings instrument tuned to 3 chords in a way that can be more homogeneous with minimal fingering for my own interest inspired by Dominico Galli

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

4:01 - I haven't seen *just* the back off a violin for quite a while!!

[@hungabastahdeluxe3751]

The Geige sounds beautiful.

[@fordsrestorations970]

Yeah I know what you mean, I just restored a very early Hepplewhite 4-drawer desk, many hours of very fine detail work, a person has to be in their right mind and mood to work such tedious work and there's no rushing it 😮

[@californiadreamin8423]

It’s a fine instrument made from quality Tonewood . Great sound, great history….a treasure.

[@contemporaryprimitiveman3469]

I have my great grandfather’s fiddle. I was perplexed by these crescent marks on the back. Then I found a pic of him with a pipe in his mouth. He must have tapped his pipe out on the back.

[@finlayfraser9952]

Pretty good!

[@ezraschwartz5201]

Thank you for this emotional story, Olaf. i am personally familiar with the story of another violin, told by a dear friend, a Holocaust survivor born in the Netherlands, about his father’s violin. The great great granddaughter, growing to become a wonderful violinist herself, now has the restored violin. There are English subtitles. The survivor lives in Israel now, and tells the story in Hebrew. I hope that whatever people think about Israel now, this is just a story about a violin and the last bonds an instrument can make on the lives of many generations. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHOvXqSModppkNEsi=6a4WnAUZCI4t5Y6V

[@1dkappe]

I’d love to get my hands on my Great Great Grandfather’s violin. He was concertmaster of the Kaiser’s opera orchestra (and a student of Joseph Joachim, a close collaborator of Brahms). I’m sure it and the other family instruments got sold over the two world wars.

[@JamesMears76]

A lovely result,

[@tgchicot]

Isaac Stern plucked with his thumb, very considerate towards the instrument!

[@JazzBear]

I wish you didn’t live so many thousands of miles away. I would love to visit your shop and play your violins.

[@cafiend]

I restore people’s old bicycles to rideable condition using the same method of updating parts that honor the immortal simplicity of the original machine but incorporate genuine improvements.

[@brahmsbratsche]

A really beautiful video and story. Thanks you. One question Olaf: why do you use a heat gun?

[@JHouse4]

Question! How often do you decide to move the soundpost and it actually makes it worse and you have to go back? How do you get a sense for when a soundpost might not be placed optimally?

[@gerhardprasent3358]

Fine. What kind of strings do you use? They sound a bit sharp to me - and not very warm on the G- string?

[@groezy]

such slender corners! doesn't look very much like a strad.

[@CooperViolins]

Is that a spirit varnish that you use for the touchup?

[@stooartbabay]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@bulwinkle]

Comment for the algorithm.

[@JanekIdzik]

I don't comment on videos but is that a Stradivarius?? I paused the video at 7:22 looking at the sticker. Thank you for what you do. Preserving history and memories.

[@AskOlaftheViolinmaker]

@@JanekIdzik it's a Stradivarius copy... They made millions in the late 1800s and early 1900s

[@gerhardprasent3358]

I' ve got also a "Stradivarius" 😂

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

:)

[@randolphfriend8260]

🥲 💗 🎉

[@user-kv8dq8bf9t]

when you talk to the camera can you look at the screen instead of the camera . when you do this it looks like your talking to the people who looking at you ... if you know what i mean ta ..

[@Peter-ic7vj]

Junj

[@dsokind]

How much would you estimate is the value of this violin after your restoration?

[@AskOlaftheViolinmaker]

A few thousand dollars, but Invaluable to the family 😊