A graduate of Newark School of Violin Making, Libby Summers talks to active magazine’s Mary Bremner about the journey which lead Libby to set up her own business Stamford Strings Limited. It was great to see one of our local violin makers featured in the September issue of active, a Stamford & Rutland based health…

One of the last students to graduate from the London Metropolitan University with a BSc (Hons) in Musical Instruments, Zac Booth talks to active magazine’s Kate Maxim about his studies and setting up his own guitar making business Zac Booth Guitars in Great Easton, Rutland. It was great to see one of our local guitar…

NAMIR was formed as a non-profit making organisation in 1993 to provide a dedicated craft association for the profession of musical instrument repair. Members repair and make a wide range of instruments including woodwind, brass, fretted and non-fretted strings, pianos and percussion instruments. The main objectives of the Association are to encourage a high standard…