世界最迷你的小提琴：1.5英寸，售價超1000英鎊！大綱
A musician has created the world’s smallest violin, standing just an inch-and-a-half long, and is selling them for more than £1,000.
一位音樂家制作出世界上最小的小提琴，這些小提琴只有1.5英寸，每個售價超過1000英鎊。
David Edwards, who once played cello in the Scottish National Orchestra, gave up his professional music career to make doll’s house miniatures when he realised there was a gap in the market.
大衛·愛德華茲曾在蘇格蘭國家交響樂團演奏大提琴，後來當他發現玩偶之家微型玩具市場缺口後就放棄了了自己的音樂事業。
The miniaturist from Edinburgh has made his hobby a full-time career, creating hand-crafted pieces including mini everyday household items such as mini shaving brush and razor and kitchenware.
這位來自愛丁堡的微雕藝術家已經把這個愛好當成了自己的事業來經營，他製作了很多日用品微型作品，比如微型剃鬚刷、剃刀和廚房用具等。
The violins, based on the world-renowned Stradivarius, stand just one 12th of the normal size and can fetch a small fortune.
作爲世界知名的絃樂器，這些迷你小提琴雖然只有正常小提琴的十二分之一，但每個都能小賺一筆。
Mr Edwards, 76, said: ‘I make ordinary things but of a very high quality. I know what a violin looks like, that’s why I have a big advantage over other people where making violins is concerned. There’s no doubt my miniature violins are the best in the world.’
76歲的愛德華茲說道：“我做的都是些日常物品，但都保持着高品質，這就是我的優勢所在勢。毫無疑問，我的迷你小提琴是世界上最好的。”
He began carving out his career in miniatures after making furniture for his daughter’s doll’s house.
他是在爲女兒製作玩偶之家後開始微雕事業的。
He was a professional musician playing with the Covent Garden Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Edinburgh Quartet and the Scottish National Orchestra before he decided to pursue his passion to become a miniaturist.
在他決定追求微雕事業前，他曾是考文特花園樂團、皇家愛樂樂團、愛丁堡四重奏樂團和蘇格蘭國家交響樂團的職業音樂家。
Mr Edwards has more than 100 different pieces in his collections and always keeps one piece from every batch he makes.
愛德華茲現在有100多種不同的作品，每一批作品他都會留下一件成品收藏。
Previously, he made miniatures to order but decided against it when his orders came stretched to seven years in advance. He decided it was easier to make the pieces in batches because there was worldwide demand for them.
在此之前，他會依訂單製作，當他發現有人已經開始提前7年預定後，他決定成批製作，因爲世界各地市場需求很大。
The craftsman uses materials such as pear wood, plumwood and ebony to create the pieces which take from two weeks to three months to make.
這位工匠師的製作材料包括梨木、李子木和烏木，製作過程從兩星期到三個月不等。
In 2009 miniaturist Peter Riches sold a 23-room dolls house for £50,000, while some houses on the UK property market were for sale for less than that.
2009年，微雕藝術家彼得·理查斯製作的擁有23個房間的微雕玩具屋賣得50000英鎊，而那時英國房地產市場的有些房價都沒有那麼高。
The mini mansion had its own servants’ quarters, a music room with grand piano, a hand-crafted games room with snooker table and a library with over 1,000 separately bound books, and took Mr Riches a painstaking 15 years to complete.
理查斯的微雕玩具屋包括僕人住所、一個帶有三角鋼琴的音樂室、一個檯球室和帶1000冊不同封面書籍的圖書室，整個微雕大廈製作耗時15年。
