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Teaching assistant Rachele Turgeon with Week One student Dan Williams. Keeping a diligent eye on student work. | |
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Dan Williams of Scottsdale, Arizona, during his first class rehair. |
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Edmonton, Alberta's Jim Doucet compares bench tools with
fellow student Bob Buonora of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
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Janet Freeman of Tulsa, Oklahoma gets some additonal direction from teaching assistant Rachele Turgeon during week one. "I must tell you that I really enjoyed your clinic. It was the most valuable school I have ever intended. I have attended IBM courses and various computer software clinics and yours was by far the most organized and productive. You did an excellent job teaching and conveying to us the techniques of bow repair and making. Thank you for devoting so much of your time this summer to conduct the clinic. I know it was a tremendous sacrifice for you, and I appreciate your efforts. You can be sure that I for one, will apply a great deal of your teachings, and I suspect that many of the other students will do the same. " J. Freeman, Tusla OK |
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Ronald Allen of Bloomington, Indiana honing a knife's edge of a slow speed water wheel. | |
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Week One student Bert Tisher is preparing to wind the end
of a horsehair hank during rehair class. Bert hails from Kelowna, "I thoroughly enjoyed the one week course. Hopefully next year I'll do week two."... Bert |
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Week One class picture. Ron Allen snuck out early this day. | |
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Ken Taylor of Tacoma Washington bends his violin bow shaft over an electric element. Ken has found employment in this field after taking the full three-week bow course. |
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Instructor Michael Vann demonstrates how a sterling silver underslide is formed in a small hydraulic press. | |
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Class is called to the front for a close-up demonstration. |
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| Michael Greenstein. All weeks of 2003. Michael excelled in accurate bow drawings. Here he works on the second baroque bow under construction during the 2003 course. |  |
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August Castel, Courtney, BC. Week One stick making course, Summer of 2003. Made some serious headway on her stick. August attended week one. | |
| Bert Tisher, Kelowna BC, nearly finished his bow stick in only two weeks. Bert is a repeat student after spending one week in 2002. |  |
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"Michael, thanks again for sharing your knowledge and time during week two
of your wonderful workshop. I look forward to seeing you at next year's
course along with work that I will produce over the course of the next 12
months. . Thanks again, Bob Stewart." .......Robert Stewart, Las Vegas NV
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thinking about all of you slaving away. So, how many bows were finished
the last week? I am planning on attending next year as well. I am so excited about what I learned. The most important to me was learning how to analyze why a bow had a problem or didn't play as well as it could or kept stripping out. When I got home, I took apart a bow completely and really analyzed each piece and function. It makes so much more sense!" .......Coleen Wheeler, Portland |
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Final week of Class of 2003. Left to right, Michael D'Avanzo, Phoenix, AZ, Robert Taylor, Christine, Yuji Hakano, New York City, Jim, Vancouver, Michael, Los Angeles, Ted Skreko, Philip Borter, Cleveland, Oh. | |
| Ted Skreko, first to finish a classical violin bow |  |
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Week One and Two Class of 2003. Left to right, Michael Greenstein, Los Angeles,CA, Bert Tisher, Kelowna, BC, Ted Skreko, Coleen Wheeler, Portland Or., Michael Vann, Victoria, BC, Catherine Robinson, Edmonton, Alberta, Robert Taylor, Las Vegas, NV, Pat McClain, Roswell, GA | |
| Pat McClain, Roswell, GA, Week Two Class of 2003 |
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Jim Davis, Vancouver, BC. The first to hand craft a cello bow during the course of 2003. All three weeks. | |
| Catherine Robinson, Edmonton, Alberta. Catherine was the first to complete a head craft on a modern bow during week two and three in 2003. She also excelled in other intricate repair and restoration. |  |
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Photo and story in the Victoria Times Colonist on the bow making course. Here Instructor Vann is seen with Colleen Wheeler who made a baroque bow in just two weeks and played it for the press. | |
| Week one and two at work. |  |
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