Viktor Dyomin

Viktor Dyomin is a jaw harp maker from Luhansk. He came to instrument making as a player: after seeing a jaw harp in a film, he began playing and later started making his own instruments, drawing on his professional experience as a factory metalworker.

During his first five years of making, Dyomin experimented with numerous constructions and approaches to sound and assembled a personal collection of about a dozen different jaw harps. Meeting Evgeny Kalmykov in 2011 encouraged him to develop his craft further. Dyomin is drawn to tonal variety and continually refines existing designs while exploring new ideas.

Victor interested jew's harps briefly saw this instrument in some movie, started playing and soon wanted to expand its arsenal. However, to buy a novelty was simply nowhere and he began to make their own, the benefit of working with metal he worked professionally at the factory. In five years, the master had too many options for sound and formed a set of about a dozen personal trumps all stripes, but to stop there is not going to - it attracts a variety of sound and richness of colors. "Ideally trumps should be a lot," says Victor, leading continuous work on improvement of the existing and the new discovery. In 2011, he met with Eugene Kalmykov, who engage in the manufacture spodvig his trumps to a new level. There are tools and other masters. Play prefer the outdoors, trying to learn new technology. Although varganostroenie takes him most of the time, it's not the only passion: Victor plays the sitar, which draws its "richness" of sound - like a Jew's harp - and is also a "native" tool. I tried to learn piano and guitar, he plans to take up the Indian two-sided drum. Among other hobbies - oriental philosophy, music, metal, wood, engraving, makume Ghana and "a little bit of invention." And finally, all the wishes from the master - constantly evolve!

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