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'I naturally built up a stock of everything but I've always played the violin and fiddle myself and in some ways, I saw it as my way to subsidise my opportunity to keep playing music.'

I just kept revisiting everything I earned into what I had and maybe 10 years ago, I thought about selling nice instruments to people who wanted to upgrade. 'I started my workshop with a minimum of two and that was 30 years ago. I went and did a summer course in violin making down in Cork and then did a course in bow making over in Oxford in England and then started my workshop.

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He said: 'I've been there over 30 years - my old fiddle teacher used to say to me to learn how to repair bows and you'll always have an income. Read more: Artist loses 'life's work' as creative studios devastated by Belfast fire He told Belfast Live how he estimates that more than £30,000 of stock and equipment was destroyed by the fire. A musician who had a 30-year violin collection destroyed in the Belfast Cathedral Buildings fire says it is 'scary' to think of the value of what was lost in the blaze.Īidan Mullholand, owner of Mullholland Strings, woke on Monday morning to hear the news that his entire collection had been lost after emergency services were called to the Cathedral Quarter area of the city just after 5:40 am on October 3.Īidan has been self-employed his entire adult life and spent countless hours restoring beloved instruments and encouraging musicians in his workshop.

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