About

“I am a scientist by training, an engineer by birth and a musician since as long as I can remember. I got interested in making instruments in the early 1990’s when some friends and I started a Tudor/Medieval theatre group called Melford Hys Companie. I soon discovered why loud reed instruments were invented. When you have a hundred plus children in a dance on a windy day a recorder just doesn’t cut it. I visited the early music fair in London and was shocked at the price of instruments. I remember asking a maker what I would need to make my own instruments and what it would cost. When he told me that the lathe and all the bits and pieces would be about the same price as a set of decent pipes I became set on making my own. What he didn’t tell me, of course was that you have to make your own tools to hollow out the bores (the tapered reamers) and this is frequently more involved than the woodwork. I also underestimated the pain of reed making but maybe it is a good job I did.w the meanings behind objects in particular moments in time, how they translated into status, wealth or power. Jewelry has always been a way to communicate and distinguish and with the evolution of society, it turned into another way of expression, like clothing. I’m passionate about how we use it to express who we really are.”