Kenmore Violins Owner Dr. Jeff Loen has
extensive training in violin making, restoration, and bow rehair and
repair. After earning a Ph.D. in
geoscience research, he focused his researcher’s drive on the problem of
violin acoustics, eventually amassing one of the world’s largest databases
of details of classic instruments.
He is internationally known for editing the CAS Journal (2000-2004; an international peer-reviewed journal
on violin acoustics), and for speaking at professional meetings including Oberlin Workshops, and conventions
of the Violin Society of America, the
American Federation of Violin and
Bow Makers, and the
International Symposium on Musical Acoustics.
Dr. Loen spent many years studying
details of fine classic violins, violas, and cellos in the world’s best
museums and collections. Results of his research on Stradivari and
Guarneri del Gesu have been published by The Strad Magazine, the VSA
Journal, and the CAS Journal,
and he has written some popular articles for Fiddler magazine. His
book on thickness graduation maps of classic instruments is owned by
hundreds of violin makers, shops, violin making schools, and enthusiasts
worldwide.
He has run a professional violin shop
since 1995. In addition to sales,
service, and rentals of Kenmore Violin’s stock of violin, viola, and cello,
he maintains instruments in several school orchestras. He has played violin in orchestras, and
banjo, guitar, mandolin, and fiddle in bluegrass bands, Celtic groups, and
theatrical productions.
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