With the massive arrival of things 2.0, the Neolin too, passes into its second generation. Although compared to classical violin making, the Neolins...
Although it’s fun to develop innovative instruments based on my own ideas, it’s even better to work with demanding musicians on ambitious...
6 years after the birth of the first Neolins, and 3 years after the Neoloncelle, here is the Neola. The reason for such a delay is not that I do not...
Making instruments in series can offer great possibilities for experimentation – if ever the idea does not work out, at least a part of the...
As I’m always looking for new timbres to explore, I decided to check what happens if I made a Neolin without archings. Primarily, I was trying to...
On the congress of the French violin making association ALADFI in 2008, I assisted a conference by Japanese scientist Eiichi Obataya concerning the...
That’s it, the first prototype of the Neolin’s Cello-version is finally born ! Some technical features:-built-in pick-up which makes it...
Most violins with a new design I’ve ever seen seemed to be more or less artistic deformations of the classical violin. I wanted to make one which had...
The violin of the “Rubato” range The Strad 2.0 !This violin is a full-fledged master violin in every way, except two: – Its price...
The jazz violin has seen the light of day after a creative break of 3 years spent in Pris workshops doing restauration work on ancient instruments...
Several customers (or potential ones) are seduced by the possibilities offered by the frets on the Neolin. But at the same time, they don’t...
An idea by Franck Lopez (see page references): A 6-string Neolin tuned like a soprano-guitar (one octave higher) and fretted. Like that, the gitar...
With the aim to make the Neolin more than just “a violin with frets”, I developped a different playing position for a customer (Frank...
The juxtaphone was meant to be an electracoustic sort of violin with a mouth resonator. The idea was to change the sound colour by altering the...
An order from a wholesaler in Hong Kong. Before the start of a series production very soon, the instrument has been modified a bit by the producer...
Mr Houdard had asked me to design an instrument for their play “au fil des myths”. The whole decor of this play was made from rope...
