Giving Trees A Voice

I could just sense as a stone sculptor can sense that there is a statue within a bit of sandstone, I could sense there was a violin sitting in that log.

Where music takes over, where words finish.

Environmental protection and respect for others all starts on your own doorstep.

It's up to us to turn the tide and bring back the health of the planet so that our future generations can live in a peaceful, beautiful environment.

My motto and Thorens motto is to give trees a voice and by taking a branch you save an incredible gentle giant and one of the lungs of the earth, which is our prime concern being environmentalists.

This violin is now an envoy for peace and reconciliation through the power of music and it's in the spirit of Wilfred Owen.

As a player in the highland tradition he feels that instruments pass energy from the tree that they have picked up from the historic moments when these individuals were around them. That kinetic energy travels through the makers into the wood and then finally is released through the player who picks up energy and is able to hear and understand tunes from that in folk tradition, in that piece of wood.