The workshop and the team

Besides visits from violin and bow makers from around the world, we have a core team that regularly comes to our workshop in Copenhagen to do repair and maintenance work for our customers.

Bow maker · France

Jacques Poullot

Jacques Poullot was born in 1960 as the son of a musician living in Dijon. In 1976, after studying piano, violin and trombone at the conservatory, he joined the highly regarded Ecole Nationale de Lutherie de Mirecourt in the bow making class of Bernard Ouchard.

In 1979 he received his bow maker diploma and moved on to a four-year internship in the workshop of instrument maker Albert Claudot (Meilleur Ouvrier de France) in Dijon. Soon after, he started his own business and has since produced his sought-after bows. His workshop relocated in 2000 to the Haute-Savoie region of France.

Jacques Poullot also writes our certificates of authenticity and appraisals on French bows.

Jacques Poullot’s website See when they visit

Violin maker · Germany

Claire Chaubard

Born in 1976 in Montauban in southern France, Claire Chaubard completed her scholarly and musical studies at the Conservatory of Music in Montauban (violin, piano). In 1996 she decided to become a violin maker and started her apprenticeship at the Mittenwald State School of Violin Making in 1997, graduating in 2000.

She has worked with renowned master craftsmen in Australia, France and Germany and holds the Master Craftsman Diploma of Violin Making from the Bavarian Chamber of Handicrafts. Since 2005 she has had her own workshop in Landsberg near Munich, where she repairs and restores fine string instruments and builds new violins, violas and cellos.

Claire Chaubard’s website See when they visit

Violin and bow maker · Netherlands

Duncan Emck

Duncan Emck started playing the violin at the age of 7 and later studied with Prof. J. Hoffmann at the Freiburger Musikhochschule. In 1997, after playing as a professional violinist in a number of chamber orchestras and ensembles, he decided to become a violin maker and enrolled at Maestro Renato Scrollavezza’s School of Violin Making in Parma.

He then spent six years in New York at Christophe Landon’s Rare Violins repairing, restoring and making instruments, followed by four years as a bow maker for Salchow & Sons. His versatility as instrumentalist, violin maker and bow maker makes him a very important part of our team.

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Violin and viola maker · France/London

Yann Besson

Yann Besson, a French national born in 1976, started his apprenticeship as a violin and viola maker at the French National Violin Making School of Mirecourt in 1991, graduating in 1996 with a rarely given distinction.

Following training in France and Hong Kong, he settled at Frederick Phelps Ltd in London, where he restored fine violins, violas and cellos for seven years. In 2002 he set up his own business, and his instruments are now played by international artists. He also comes by to look after the instruments we have sold up here.

Yann Besson’s website See when they visit

Does your instrument need attention?

Repairs and maintenance are done in our workshop whenever our makers visit. Reserve a time once the next visit is in the calendar, or tell us what you need.

See the schedule Ask about a repair