Seeing Red, I got involved in violinmaking by accident mostly. I started playing classical guitar when I was 16 because all my friends played electric guitar. I could not get the hang of using a pick so I used my fingers instead. That combined with my natural inclination towards classical music set me on that path. I got better and better on the guitar and when I was in my first year of art school I obsessed about making my own guitar. The guitars that I could afford to buy sucked! For 3 years I wanted to make a guitar and finally when I was at my 3rd art school at IU I discovered the violinmaking program there.
After one semester in the program I fell in love with it and dropped art school. Turns out that I was pretty much cut out for it. I don't think I even touched a violin before I made my first one. My first violin sold for $5,000. to a very nice retired school teacher. Way more than I had ever sold a piece of art for.
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Me 35 Wife 34 Two daughters 8 years and 3 years Bomb 3/30/09 W filed 4/16/09 We met in'92 married in 2000 Divorce final
