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Alma Michel

Newark School of Violin Making

RAB Award 2022:  Alma was awarded the download of Iris Carr’s on-line neck graft course and a work placement.

Education Services Award 2021:  Funding for 2 sets of Herdim repair clamps

RAB Award 2021:  Alma was awarded stretcher clamps from the Bernard Wawman bequest

French national Alma writes about her delight in her award and the help that the RAB Trust offers to students:

I got a cello stretcher clamp and a violin ‘double’ stretcher clamp. I converted the double stretcher clamp into two normal stretcher clamps, because I tried the double one and found it so difficult to use. In the picture below, the bottom stretcher clamp is completely original and the top one has some pieces that I made in tool making to complete it.
I also got some money to buy two sets of hand made repair clamps – which are absolutely amazing. They are useful all the time for repairs and I used the small ones quite a lot already, to clamp shavings or cracks back together. I guess I will use the bigger ones when I start repairing cellos and bigger instruments.
I would like to thank the members of the RAB Trust foe everything you do for us violin making students, the awards, the Zoom lectures, the tool and wood sales, they are all very useful and so nice for us.

Rowan Armour-Brown Memorial Trust Fund. Registered Charity No: 1102888

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