Lost Arts Press took over publishing my book “Making and Mastering Wood Planes” back in 2019 I believe. This month Kara Uhl posted a “Meet the Author” submission to their web site and I am sharing it here. My memoir writing days are over before they began — Kara did a very thorough job of […]
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It’s a conundrum: can a small violist be satisfied with the sound of a small viola? It is just a tall order to get the kind of presence found in larger violas when you are only working with a 15-1/2″ body length instrument, but it is a challenge that interests me greatly. The success of
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I am very excited and pleased to introduce this new instrument, which may be my finest-sounding violin to date. It is patterned after the “del Gesu” Guarneri 1743 “Il Cannone,” and it is remarkable. Play a simple scale and its clarity, depth, and power are definitively revealed. Although it has yet to be played in