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| In 1975 I enrolled in the three-year course in early
fretted instrument technology at the London College of Furniture.
I had previously taken three years of part-time violin making
classes there while pursuing a successful career as a book
designer with a large London publishing house. I like to think of
my design training, and my schooldays in an 18th century Palladian
palace and among the “dreaming spires” of Oxford, as a kind of
preparation for my new occupation of instrument building. Both
books and instruments have a functional purpose, but also a form
that is both essential to and an enhancement of that purpose. I
try to create in my instruments first and foremost a tool which
will perform to the most exacting requirements of the musician,
but which will also please the eye as well as the ear. |
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Email: john@pringleviols.com
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