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seitz’s violins

A violin on the wall peeks through a row of repaired bows. Tags with owner names dangle with thread. Geoffrey J. Seitz turns to one violin in particular. “If you want a portrait of me, there you go, that’s me.” It was the first violin he made, more than 30 years ago. He used hard [...]

the eloquent violin

Geoffrey J. Seitz, Violinmaker, St. Louis, Missouri.
“If you want a portrait of me, there you go, that’s me.” Seitz responding to my request to make a photographic portrait of him for a Post-Dispatch story. He referred me to the first violin he made about thirty years ago (above) from wood he found in a junkyard. [...]