Until recently, the work of Giovanni Paolo Maggini has not been of great interest to me. Perhaps it is the number of ill-conceived copies I’ve seen that clouded my view. Jack Harris approached me with the idea of building for…
I got to know Kazuko Matsusaka and her viola, attributed to Lorenzo Storioni, thorough our involvement with Yellow Barn and Eric Rosenblith’s summer International Music Institute in Fryeburg, Maine. I had expressed admiration for the simple, straight-forward approach to design…
My desire to understand what is important in a successful violin has led to special interest in successful instruments that do not follow the usual patterns. Friends in the Guarneri Quartet encouraged me to approach Arnold Steinhardt, first violin in…