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Philippe RAULT
Brass wind-instrument maker
Craft National Living Treasures 2002
"I see the tool obeying the hand; but the hand, which guides it?" The Fountain Of the brass sheet to resonance, material to sonority...
The traditional invoice of instruments of the brass family known as natural extends on a great number of techniques whose specificities intersect. Lastly, the houses with the reflections crépitants sound, make résoner the harmonics of the fundamental note corresponding to the length which characterizes the instrument.
The chance wants that Philippe RAULT returns like apprentice in the workshop of his father at the 19 years age. This workshop located in full heart of the 11th district of Paris allures it; its meeting with the various Masters that it cotoie wakes up its vocation. Qualified by its pars of true craftsman and true craftsman, it is one of the last representatives of a trade put at evil by modernity. It is the only one to carry out the complete range of the instruments out of copper simple and natural by the means of traditional techniques. It paralellement shares this activity with manufacture and restoration of instruments of percussion.
En 1983, it saves an artisanal company of plastic skins, which makes the great happiness of the sets of percussions and the collectors in the search of skins to measure. The diversity and the richness of its tools make of its workshop a true cave of Ali Baba. Its material corresponds to many trade associations: menuisiser, dinandier, ironmonger, painter, carriage-builder, welder, craftsman in wrought iron or jeweller...
It readily admits to trust in its eye, its ear, its direction of the touch and the experiment of old to carry out its work and to satisfy the happiness of the musicians. Its ultimate ambition is to ensure the continuation of its art by transmitting its techniques to its pupil trombonist, 29 years, made from Osaka (Japan), Nayoa MIYAKE.
