This. The goal is to never have to do this shit ever again.
I have a colleague that just left the industry to become a violin luthier. Motherfucker doesn’t even know how to play yet. That’s how far they want to get from anything related to their work life.
Not sure you need to know how to play them, to sell them. Heck, I had a bow re-stringing apprenticeship under a guy named Howard Needham. He can repair any damage done to any violin. He doesn’t play a lick. He ensures that at least one of his apprentices can properly play a scale to test the instruments. Or he used to anyway. Haven’t talked to him in a couple decades, so he may not be with us anymore as he was in his late 60s back in '99-'00
This. The goal is to never have to do this shit ever again.
I have a colleague that just left the industry to become a violin luthier. Motherfucker doesn’t even know how to play yet. That’s how far they want to get from anything related to their work life.
Not sure you need to know how to play them, to sell them. Heck, I had a bow re-stringing apprenticeship under a guy named Howard Needham. He can repair any damage done to any violin. He doesn’t play a lick. He ensures that at least one of his apprentices can properly play a scale to test the instruments. Or he used to anyway. Haven’t talked to him in a couple decades, so he may not be with us anymore as he was in his late 60s back in '99-'00
Yes, that’s what my colleague told me. They did specify that the luthier school requires that they can play a little, but not much.