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Elite musicians staff our technical and innovation teams. The Peter Zaret creative movement starts with a lust for complex, complete tone.
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Violin
First Step - try an Instrument
Help us understand your performance intentions and personal playing preferences - we'll hand you a selection of appropriate instruments.
Second Step - Personalization
You may find you enjoy the fluid action of a low string height. Or you may prefer the willing string response of a more westward soundpost. We'll make as many iterations and test as many configurations as is required to find the most inspiring and comfortable feel - all for free for the lifetime you own or rent.
Third Step - optimization and refinement
As you evolve as an artist and develop new repertoire, your instrument may require adaptations and enhancements. We'll troubleshoot and experiment with setups until your instrument feels and sounds adequate to your evolving needs.
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Nature’s Gradients: The Violin Bridge and The Art of Seamless Transition
When a violin or a cello sings, two worlds speak to one another. The world of structure—maple carved into the bridge, stiff enough to bear hundreds of pounds of string tension—and the world of reso...
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Protein Folding, Creative Evolution, and the Future of the Violin
For more than two centuries, the violin has been both the most cherished and the most paradoxically frozen instrument in Western music. While new technologies have reshaped every corner of our live...
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Orality, Writing, and the Fate of Musical Vitality
Orality, Writing, and the Fate of Musical Vitality 1. The Oral Roots of Musical Life Before notation became the axis of European musical culture, music lived primarily as an oral, embodied, and co...
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