Customer Emails/Letters
Email from a customer who has just received his violin with a newly fitted bass bar:
July 12, 2004
Dear Peter,
The Hammig is superb. The tone is warm with lots of overtones and great reserves of power. It responds instantly on all strings and I totally believe you when say that it is as good as any Strad. This violin has excellent wood and is beautifully crafted, but it was a mystery to me why it was so poor on sound.
I was delighted to see on your web-site that the Koberling Violas are to be fitted with your bass-bar. This is the way forward Peter. I believe you should target makers in the US and Europe, there are so many artistic makers around who fail when it comes to sound who rely on the myth of playing an instrument in, which is never the answer. From time to time there are discourses on 'acoustics and the violin' in the Strad Magazine with various theories put forward and hashed out by the same inner circle year in and year out who know all about your miracle bass-bar but dismiss it for ulterior motives and the sustaining of the cartel for clapped out Italian instruments. I trust Peter that you will live long enough to see your research and your bass-bar take their places where they should be in the minds and hearts of musicians globally and that intelligent makers will grasp the opportunity to fit your bass-bar and give future musicians the gift of sound as a matter of course.
Thank you Peter, with kind regards, sincerely, Leo (Harris).
