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Peter Purich Part One

Peter Purich is an innovative violin maker known for his unique personalized chinrest design. He’s also a multi-instrumentalist who plays in many different styles, and a dedicated violin and viola pedagogue. Because this conversation was extra-long it has been divided into two episodes. Part 1 delves into his development as an instrument maker and innovator, and as a creative musician. He shows and describes some of his innovations with chinrest design. The episode ends with some improvisation and some great parenting advice! Part 2 will continue with a lot of specifics about playing and teaching the violin, and he shows some of his inventive instrument designs, his unique shoulder support, and some great wisdom. 

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Theo Marks Transcript

It's really interesting to hear about Theo Marks' unique upbringing in a family of musicians, and his personal journey to become a violin-family maker. Theo Marks: “ think if you just go through once and see the process from finish to end, you'll learn so much about how your violin functions. I mean, I can imagine that I barely was aware that I had a sound post in my cello, as a teenager, and that the fingerboard might need - that the arching of my cello was affecting its tone at the f-holes. You can so easily focus just on the technical aspects of playing. And I find now as a cellist I'm really enriched as a musician being more aware of how that wood is vibrating and what I'm hearing and how what I can do to affect that and how much is coming from the instrument itself.”

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