Greetings Neanderthals, (and Neandertalettes)
After a week of lurking, I feel that it's time to dive in, My name is
Peter Lundin, I live In Gothenburg, Sweden (that's to the left of Nothern
Russia on the map folks) I'm actually a former professional cabinetmaker
- in the sence that have all the formal qualifications (schools and
apprenticeship) but I don't work making furniture professionaly any more.
Nope, by one of those fortunate U-turns that life takes I got a chance to
make one of my 'hobbies' my line of livelyhood - that is; historical
pianos - so these days I build them, study them, and occasionally write
things about them at the University of Gothenburg.
I have been working with wood since before I could walk, I'm literary
stuffed with sawdust from growing up in my uncles' workshop. Besides
wood, Music has been the other major factor in my life, playing guitar
and piano. And thus, a combination of the both has always come natural to
me. I also belive that growing up in a rural village, on the island,
Gotland (in the middle of the Baltic sea, also to the left of Russia on
the map) had a very positive influence on me, I never rush to anything,
You know, each tool has it's day.
To be honest, My tool collecting is very random, I rearly buy tools
because they are collectors items, nope, I usualy let stuff pass by if I
can not find a proper use for it in the shop. Still, it's my deepest
feeling that most old tools are superior to the things produced to day
(Yes, I know there are exeptions) - anyway as a piano builder (and
cabinetmaker) I very often end up building the tool I need myself, and
thats one of the joys of beeing a neanderthal. You have to lern the in's
and out's of several neighbouring crafts. Coming to planes, I'm the
wooden type of guy, mostly because it'll take me an hour to make one I
can use for a lifetime.
Looking at this, I've probobly left out everything interesting about
myself, anyway I hope I can contribute to some of the on going threads,
and even help creating one or two myself... enough now, got to get back
to the workbench, I have to finish the new assembly table I'm building
for the shop...
-A day not spent learning, is a day lost.
Ps/ I appologize to the list's gramathical police, English is only my
third language, and I've only been at it for so long. So; if I use some
unidiomatic turns, it's just because the English language fails me 8^)
ptr
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Peter Lundin,
Maker and Researcher of historical pianos
University of Gothenburg
Sweden
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