The Psalm Violin Project

How it started

At the beginning of my violinmaking journey, I pondered how I would label and number my instruments. Violinmakers have many different methods for personalizing their instruments, like stamps on bridges or on the inside of instruments, special carvings on the outside, engraved initials, special labels, etc. This is important because it helps to verify the authenticity of an instrument, but it’s also a signature mark of the maker.

Eventually, through what I like to think was divine inspiration, I decided that I would inscribe the Psalms on all of my violins, to correspond with the order in which the instrument is built (1st violin, 1st Psalm).