Guest Speakers Bill & Nelson Yarwood

Posted

on Feb 02, 2016

Bill addressed club 12 months ago when he showed the parts of a viola he was making, which he has now finished, and to his delight sounds good.

Nelson studied music at Melbourne University then Australian National Academy of Music and had a casual position with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Has now completed his teacher training and about to head overseas to Berlin.

The viola has a European spruce front and a maple back. Shapes are carved out of a solid block of wood.

Bill had learnt to make guitars, but relied on his mentor Simon Collins who mentored Bill in the manufacture of a viola.

Nelson explained that the violin's acoustic proportions are correct. Viola's proportions are not acoustically correct.

Darker tone, used in a symphony orchestra to provide harmony. It is not a main voice, used to fill out harmony, or in complimenting the main line, although solo pieces are now being written.

Nelson played some Walton and Bach pieces on the viola, to the delight of members.