July 2008
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Luthiers!
Posted by squirrley on 19 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: home
I met two luthiers at a party tonight. They don’t fix violins: they build them from scratch in their small apartment. A tiny cottage industry in which they buy the wood, heat the varnish on the stove, and make instruments, then take them round trying to sell them. The couple moved here last july from Mexico. Both speak Spanish, which I speak poorly. Additionally, one speaks English and the other French. It made for a peculiar, linguistically cross-pollinated conversation.