Martin Paul repairs and restores violins, violas, cellos and their bows in his West Melbourne workshop. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian“There’s often people wandering past and most people have a glance in because you don’t often walk past a violin shop,” Paul says.
“Yes, it’s a violin and it sounds like a violin – but then you play it next to another one and they sound quite different. Or when you hold them there are small differences, like their shapes, the different curves they have used, and the colours in them through the layers of varnish,” he says. So, while studying music performance at Monash University, he began working part-time in Fyfield’s store.“I started out watching the repairs happen on the bench and then starting to get an idea of how it all worked,” he recalls.Paul remembers observing Fyfields’ delicate work on the bench.
A year later, he travelled to the UK to learn specialist restoration methods under luthier John Gosling which he describes as an “old school apprenticeship”. A conservative approach is at the heart of all repair and restoration work – aiming to keep as much intact of the original maker’s work of the instrument as possible.
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