MeetTheTeam

For this month’s blog I got to meet another of our new luthiers, Jacob, in his workshop on the second floor of Bridgewood and Neitzert. Jacob has been with us for five months sharing the workshop with Keisuke and Tung. Jacob played violin from an early age and was aware that there were people who fixed instruments as a career. Like many of the luthiers here, he was drawn to lutherie through a combined love of music and woodwork. In his 20’s Jacob decided that he wanted to make a... Read More

We’ve been really pleased to welcome two new luthiers into the Bridgewood and Neitzert workshop recently and will be introducing them in the next couple of months. This month’s blog introduces Keisuke Yokoo who joined us a year ago following a significant career back in his home city of Tokyo. I met him at his bench to hear all about his journey. Despite having no formal music education as a child, Keisuke was drawn to classical music and avidly followed great international classical musicians coming to Japan, particularly international orchestras and... Read More