David I. Folland
1961, Stati Uniti
From the time I was a young child, I have been fascinated by the beauty and versatility of wood. I have a vivid memory of, as a four-year-old, digging through my father’s board pile, looking for just the right piece of wood for a toy I wanted to make. As I sawed and nailed and carved, I felt a deep power of transformation, of taking something apparently plain and ubiquitous, and changing it into something beautiful and desirable (at least to my four-year-old eyes). I still feel the same way: to take a piece of maple and a piece of spruce, and turn it into a violin or viola or cello is almost like making magic.
No less formative was the experience of growing up as one of four violinists in my household, two of whom went on to become professional musicians. Violins and violin music were part of the air I breathed as a child. That early and continuing experience has developed in me an ear that is well attuned to the nuances of sound production.
David Folland in his studio
This early association with violins and woodworking led me directly to me enrollment, at the age of eighteen, in The violinmaking School of America in Salt Lake City, and my subsequent graduation from that school in 1983.
Since that time, I have focused all of my energy and attention on building some of the finest violins, violas, and cellos made in the world today. I have won dozens of medals and awards for my instruments in major international violinmaking competitions. I have made more than 200 violins, violas, and cellos (along with three bases) which are being played in major orchestras and conservatories across the United States and Europe.
I am a member of the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers. My instruments are at times also used in non-classical settings, such as the cello rock group Cello Fury.
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