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The Type of 6th Grade Science Project You Can Do When Your Dad's a Luthier Teaching You the Trade

Violins in schools

By Rain Noe - January 23, 2018

in Object Culture

I came across the story of Eric Trujillo, a Colorado-based luthier who runs Mi Vida Strings in Denver.

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Trujillo repairs and builds string instruments for clients around the world--his most famous client is probably Bob Dylan--and is ensuring the craft stays alive by teaching it to his 11-year-old son, Daniel.

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Which means Daniel has more hand tool skills than your average sixth-grader. So when it came time for him to submit a science project for school, they chose a rather unconventional topic: Daniel built, from scratch, three different single-string, cigar-box-style violins using different blends of wood with each.

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The Trujillos then used an audio-sensing smartphone app to see how each blend of wood affected the sonic quality of each instrument:

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Well, that blows the doors off of my baking soda volcano.

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Chris Haar

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This is fantastic in every possible way. Great to see this trade being passed down the generations.

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Mike Heck

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This is so cool!

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