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Visual
appeasement and personal connection to the work shown in the gallery
strikes a cord with the viewer at several levels thus warming the
heart and uplifting the spirit. |
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Victoria
Fiddle Society is a Victoria based society that promotes fiddle
music through workshops, events and by bringing people of all ages
together to enjoy fiddle music. Check out their site for upcoming
Victoria Fiddle Society Events. |
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Victoria Folk Music Society's website contains a schedule of local
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Fiddler
Magazine was founded in the Spring of 1994. They provide
an informative, educational, and entertaining resource for fiddlers,
accompanists, and appreciative listeners. Each issue (now approx.
60 pages each) features a different region or style of fiddling,
as well as plenty of other articles and columns. Visit their website
at: www.Fiddle.com |
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Victoria
Homeschool Connection is a website that offers information about
HomeSchooling in the Greater Victoria area. |
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Violin Repair and Restoration
Services
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| Violin Repair |
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| Violins For Sale |
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| Fiddles Fixed |
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Victoria Violin Repair, or "Fiddles
Fixed" is
owned and operated by Clarence Boudreau. Clarence has been repairing
violins since he was a teenager during the late 1960s.
He was born and raised in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Clarence was introduced to violin repair by
the late Roland Richards. Roland Richards was a Violin Makers
Association of America First Place award winning
violin maker and instrument repairer. His shop was located
in Westmount, Nova Scotia. When Roland met Clarence, he was
delighted at his enthusiasm and happily supplied
him with hide glue and loaned him clamps. With the help of his
father, and Mr. Richards, Clarence restored a Koch violin.
Immediately after Clarence had successfully restored the Koch,
Roland offered to teach Clarence the trade and took him on as
an apprentice.
Nearly forty years later the Koch is still in the same restored
condition and rests in the display counter at the shop.
Clarence Boudreau continues to repair instruments
for customers from his birth place of Nova Scotia, to as
far as Alberta, Alaska, California, Oklahoma, Arizona, Washington
State and British Colombia and has become an award winning fiddle
player. One of his sayings is "I
never met a
fiddle I didn't like." He still doesn't charge to look over
an instrument and give an opinion on condition and value. He
does a thorough analysis before giving a quote on repairs
and sticks to that quote. All repairs are guaranteed.
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