An Uluer VARDAL Violin chooses its own soloist!
Uluer VARDALOĞLU is an Expert violin maker with an engineering background. He lived in various cities of Türkiye due to his father’s occupation. He has been interested in music since a young age and has always been invested in music throughout his education and afterward. He took part in many concerts with different instruments and accompanied several artists in the performance committees of various musical societies.
The main instruments he has played are baglama, mey, oud, kanun, stringed drum and violin. Because of his early fascination and ongoing interest in the violin, he eventually developed the idea for making his own instrument after conducting extensive research over the years. Based on this idea and thought, the violin-maker had the opportunity to examine the instruments of several well-known violin-makers in Turkey and in various cities of the world. He has conducted and is still conducting a lot of research by delving deep into the history of the violin making craft. Growing up with a father who was a forest engineer and spending much of his life surrounded by woods enabled him to speak the language of the trees.
He continues his ongoing quest for acoustic trees in many countries and cities, primarily in all forested regions of Turkey, but also additionally in various regions of Russia, Bosnia, and regions of Ukraine near the Carpathians. Therefore, he has a rich acoustic tree stock. In addition to his expertise as a violin-maker, he possesses a unique and valuable collection of antique violins.
Using the infrastructure provided by engineering and advanced contemporary
software, he has produced three-dimensional prototypes of violins modeled after
the works of renowned masters such as Amati, Guarneri, and Stradivarius and has
also conducted acoustic and static analyses on the prototypes he made. He
further developed his works, designed his own violins and produced his own
models. As a result of his R&D, the violins he will produce in the near
future will be his own patented works. He is on the verge of completing the
infrastructure studies of this matter. Aside from primarily producing stringed
instruments for soloists of philharmonic orchestras, he also secondarily
produces them for conservatory students. The number of violins he produces in
the spare time from all his engineering work are 2 or 3 violins a year. Apart
from his professional life in Istanbul, he also continues to craft stringed
instruments in his workshop located in Trabzon. He produces oil and
alcohol-based varnishes using entirely natural materials in his personal
laboratory to be used in the violins he makes.
My kind regards to all masters, living and deceased,