Lydie Sauzet - Luthier

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Aramon, Occitanie
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Lydie Sauzet-Luthier, new fine making and fine restauration
🎻 Quartet Luthier
🪵 Shavings of humor
🎶Passionate musicians,students & pros
📍 Workshop life + tips + wood therapy
✨Violin making Akademy

Based in France🇫🇷 and Norway🇳🇴

02/11/2026

Discover violin making with your senses

29/10/2026

Happy Samhain from the workshop. 🕯️

Eight true horror stories from a violin maker’s bench: glue, nails, attics, airports… and one very judgemental black cat.

Violinists, violists, cellists: what’s the scariest thing that ever happened to your instrument?

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23/10/2026

Some choices are invisible once the instrument is finished. These are three of mine. 🎻

Nina Gambin | Coach Instagram

But they shape every instrument that leaves my workshop.

Over my career, I’ve often dealt with tonewood suppliers who no longer respected certain felling rules. Yes, the wood was magnificent. But it came from forests that had been destroyed irresponsibly.

Fingerboard, pegs, tailpiece… Travelling with your instrument is getting harder, and I don’t think that will change. Ebony, rosewood… many of these woods are now CITES-listed, or have been ravaged, like boxwood. So I turn to alternative materials, or to woods grown closer to home.

The art of making a brand-new instrument look three hundred years old. Confession: I’ve done it. The viola in this photo is one of mine, and I loved every hour of it. Hats off to the makers who master it: it takes a huge amount of work, a trained eye and real skill. But today, I’d rather not follow a trend where every instrument looks the same.

Which would you choose for your next instrument? Tell me in the comments 👇

Responsibly sourced maple and spruce, made by hand in Trondheim. And, if you wish, an Art Nouveau inlay we design together, never repeated on another instrument. Join the commission list via the link in my bio.

19/10/2026

From the outside, it looks like velvet and applause. 🎻

Concert halls, beautiful instruments, a world that seems reserved for the lucky few. What you don’t see are the endless hours of practice, the trains and planes across the country and around the world, the auditions you travel for and don’t get, the injuries you play through because cancelling feels like failing.

Behind every polished performance, there are years of quiet sacrifices nobody claps for. I lived that life as a violist for over fifteen years. I know how lonely it can feel 🫣

So if you’re in the middle of it right now, this one is for you.

Which of these goals hit closest to home? 👇

fiddle fiddler

15/10/2026

I wanted to built violins 🎻
If you think I am carving wood all day long
Let me stop you right here😆.

violin viola cello ✔️

15/10/2026

Nobody warns you about this part at violin-making school. 🎻

You train for years to carve a scroll, and then you discover the bench is only half the workshop. The other half happens at the kitchen table, at midnight, with a cold cup of tea.

I’m showing you this side because it’s real. Every instrument that leaves my workshop carries all of it, not just the wood and the varnish.

Which of these jobs would you hand over first? 👇

Nina Gambin | Coach Instagram

11/10/2026

When you picture a workshop where violins, violas and cellos are made, you often have this ‘picture-perfect’ image in mind, a bit like Geppetto’s workshop, with its magical chiaroscuro.🪄

But sometimes the reality is quite different.🤭
Bye for now! Kisses!

violinist violist cellist

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5 Rue Henri Pitot
Aramon
30390

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http://sauzet-luthier.com/

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