The wood was selected by an amature maker whose family project was to study violin making, select the materials as a family, and then each make a violin, helping each other. At the time that meant five violins were to be made, one each for dad, mother, and their three boys aged 5,6, and 8. The first violin for the dad was about 60% complete when he suffered a major heart attack and the project had to be shelved and his partially completed violin was eventually sold. Each family member had cut the plate outlines for 'their' violins and this wood was placed in the back of a closet. Eventually they realized that someone else in a future time would have to complete these violins and when remodeling, they put the wood into the wall and covered it with sheet rock. When the man ( a house builder by trade) sold the house he told the new buyer that if someone ever tore down this house there was some violin making wood hidden in the wall. Years go by and the surviving wife was having some repair work done to her home to get it ready for the market when the violin wood (the plate wood for four instruments) was uncovered. They found me in the yellow pages under violin making and I eventually bought the plate wood for three violins. Two of these were beautiful birdseye maple of which this violin is the second completed.
The first violin found a home with a young musician who was looking for a birds eye wood violin.
Now this second violn has been 'birthed' and is ready to bring years of enjoyment to a new generation.
