Last month a friend of mine showed the workshop where he makes functioning replicas of historical instruments, mostly from the 17th and 18th century. It was such a privilege! It's hard to describe how fascinating this visit was: the tools, the materials, the instruments, the process itself, everything about it was a display of incredible and moving artistic beauty. A short thread with a few more pictures. ๐Ÿงต 1/7

The detail of the bottom part of a wind instrument made of dark wood. It ends in an odd round barrel with two holes - one at the top and one of the side - that's placed at a 90 degree angle from the body of the instrument itself.A wind instrument that looks vaguely like a long wooden flute with a thick round barrel at the end, placed at a 90 degree angle from the body of the instrument. Around the instrument are some tools and pieces of brass that still need to be mounted on it.A wind instrument that looks vaguely like a long wooden flute with a thick round barrel at the end, placed at a 90 degree angle from the body of the instrument.
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