Christopher Germain is a skilled professional violinmaker and restorer whose studio is in Philadelphia's Center City. (Chris is also an accomplished old-time fiddler.) Studying under Tschu Ho Lee, he graduated from the Chicago School of Violin Making in 1985. In 1995, he was asked by Vahakn Nigogosian to serve as an instructor at the Stringed Instrument Restoration Workshop at Oberlin College where he eventually succeeded Nigo as the director of that program, which now concentrates on new instrument making. He divides his time between restoring fine stringed instruments and building new violins, violas, and cellos.

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