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Violin Building and Repair Apprenticeship ’22–’23 | Daniel Smith and Richard Maxham

This film introduces Daniel Smith and Richard Maxham, who received a Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship in 2022-2023. Daniel Smith of Lynchburg found his way into becoming a luthier while he was working full time for the local fire department. After discovering Cajun music while serving in the Army in Germany during the Vietnam War, Daniel fell in love with old time music—especially the fiddle. Upon returning home, Daniel, whose father was a machinist, developed his hand skills as a “jack of all trades”—road construction, brick laying, carpentry, carpet cleaning—before settling into a career with the Lynchburg Fire Department. Richard Maxham has spent his life with the violin. “It’s something that has always been in my blood,” he shared. The fifth generation in his family to make or play the instrument, he began playing at the age of three and performed extensively as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral violinist. As he grew up, he also watched his grandfather make, repair, and adjust violins. After graduating from college and coming home to the Lynchburg area, Richard set out to develop his foundational woodworking skills before pursuing violin making further. He came upon a photo of a “stunningly beautiful” violin online, noted it was made by Daniel Smith of Lynchburg, looked him up in the phonebook, and gave him a call. Keep reading: https://www.virginiafolklife.org/sigh... About Virginia Folklife: https://www.virginiafolklife.org/about/ About the Apprenticeship Program: https://www.virginiafolklife.org/appr... Credits: Filmed and edited by Pat Jarrett Produced by the Virginia Folklife Program of Virginia Humanities with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts with additional support from the J & E Berkley Foundation. Directed by Katy Clune and Pat Jarrett.