Peter Purich is an innovative violin maker known for his unique personalized chin rest 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. Today I’m releasing Part 1, which delves into his development as an instrument maker and innovator, and as a creative musician. He shows and describes some of his innovations with chin rest design. The episode ends with some improvisation and some great parenting advice! Part 2 will continue next week 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.
I have added timestamps in the description, and like all these episodes this is available both as a podcast and a video, the link is in the description and the transcript will be published to the same link:
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