2017 Oberlin Summer Workshops

Fittings For Fine Instruments

Napoleonic Fittings:

Around
Jean Baptiste Vuillaume’s
carved decorations

Raphael THIRION, Bois d’Harmonie Manager raf@boisdharmonie.fr

Eric FOUILHÉ, Bois d’Harmonie Founder. ericf26@gmail.com
Olivier VOISIN, Bois d’Harmonie Carver. info@boisdharmonie.net
www.boisdharmonie.net
An Iconographic Data Base
of the carved fittings
History of Technology: Micro-sculpture from the Renaissance

< Religious accessories Boxwood , Ivory ^

Cister, De Virchis 1574 >

Viol, Fleury 1659 >

History of Technology: Wood and Bone Turning in Antiquity

Roman pin with prisoner Ring.

Middle Age Lathe

Digging the Heart shaped peg

A question of Heart…

Heart shaped Hill Peg

(1) (2) (3) 4)

 St Paul
Napoleonic Fittings:
Alard Knoop
Original Vuillaume’s Fittings
Messiah
London 1872 Evangelists
Stradivari’s Design
for a peg

A Fleur de
Lis Family ?
Original Stradivari’s tailpiece Lady Blunt 1721,
And the London carved copy

Some copies
Original Stradivari’s tailpiece Lady Blunt 1721,
And the London carved copy

Some copies

Heart Peg Without Heart Peg

DG 1734 DG 1733
Original Stradivari’s tailpiece Lady Blunt 1721,
And the London carved copy

Delcomble Strad 1728

Some copies

Heart Peg Peg without Heart

DG 1734 DG 1733
Original Stradivari’s tailpiece Lady Blunt 1721,
And the London carved copy

Delcomble Strad 1728

Some copies

Guarneri Soil, Guarneri Soil,

1911 certificate Original after1965
broken peg

Heart Peg Peg without Heart Maiden Strad Maiden Strad

DG 1734 DG 1733 photo 1872 Recent Photo
Analysis
An enigma :
The Tuscan Stradivari, 1690

Monographie Hill 1891

Medici Coat of arms

Thank you for your attention.
Eric Fouilhé.

In this collaborative work,

thanks to :
Andrew Dipper,
Eric Meyer,
Anne Houssay,
Ben Hebbert,
Sinier de Ridder,
Christophe Picod,
….And to the Bois d’Harmonie team.

Thanks to Tarisio for his graphic archives.