MAKER'S BIOGRAPHY

DAVID BRUCE JOHNSON

   

*b.1956 in Waterloo Ontario Canada.

*1975 Completed secondary High School with main interest in landscape painting, pottery, & a broad musical experience learning piano, french horn, cello, clarinet, saxophone and flute, before settling on guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, and eventually the violin. 

David had his first retrospective exhibition 'Land-escapes' at the Custard Factory in Dec 1999. He plays many styles of music, following his Canadian roots in Cape Breton traditional style fiddling and Irish Traditonal music.

 

          

        Scottish Borders View -2000

* 1975-76. Studied at the Nova Scotia College if Art & Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

There he took the foundation in Fine Art but also broadened his interests in ceramics and

 woodworking. He completed his first acoustic steel strung guitar.

*1976-78 Continued to pursue guitar making from workshop in Ottawa, Ontario

 

 

~Acoustic Guitar ~Headstock~1977

 

 

 

*1978-81   3 Yr Certificate in Musical Instrument Technology , London, U.K, making his first acoustic violin.

Panormo Copy and interior ,1991

 

Violin 1987

 

*1981-86 Employed as full time Violin Restorer before opening own business in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham in 1986.

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    6 String Cutaway Guitar~ 1986

 

 

 

 

Restoration Duke of  Wellington Cello,1984, Rosehill Strings

 

Regents Place Workshop , Birmingham, 1986-1993

 

*1986-1992 Maker and restorer of all stringed instruments including violin family, guitar, mandolin, lute, & dulcimer. Exhibited at the Early Music Show in London 1991.     ......Development and research into electric violins...

 

Lute Rosette

 

Course Renaissance Lute ,1990

 

EARLY VIOLECTRAS 1992

 

 

 

            

 

 

 

 

 

        

 

 

    

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