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Show Violin maker speaks A good violin requires 162 to 200 hours of skilled, painstaking, work, special woods, and knowledge dat- -ing back 300 years to the old mas-ters, mas-ters, Peter Paul Prier told members of the Bountiful Kiwanis Club at their Tuesday noon meeting. Prier says he searches out special woods and has a supply today from Yugoslavia and Italy. He said everything is hand-tooled. hand-tooled. One example, woods are not sanded or machined, as there would not be true tone. They are carefully hand-planned. There are no comers, all parts are rounded. Prier was enrolled in a school for concert violinists in Germany. When he decided he should look at some other kind of future, at age 13, his mother didn't speak to him for three days. Introduced to a violin vio-lin makers' school by a radio broadcast, he enrolled at Mitten-,wald, Mitten-,wald, graduated, later came to America. In Salt Lake City h organized or-ganized The Violin Making School of America, which today attracts students from overseas as well as from the United States. This year he has seven foreign students. He said he teaches and trains his students to concentrate on looks, sound and feel. |