{"id":290,"date":"2009-04-10T20:36:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T20:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldtownschool.org\/connect\/fiddleclub\/2009\/04\/10\/a-midwestern-violin-maker\/"},"modified":"2014-05-05T15:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T20:48:17","slug":"a-midwestern-violin-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/2009\/04\/a-midwestern-violin-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"A Midwestern Violin Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Besides being a good fiddler, Geoffrey Seitz<\/a> is an excellent builder of fine violins. His shop in south St. Louis was recently featured in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch spread by photographer Erik Lunsford. Here, with permission from Mr. Lunsford, is a link to a slide-show about Seitz Violins.<\/p>\n

Seitz Violin Shop slide show<\/a><\/p>\n

Or maybe you’d like to hear Geoff Seitz play the fiddle. Here’s a couple of tracks from his 1995 CD, The Good Old Days Are Here<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Louisiana Hornpipe<\/font><\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/chicago-fiddlin.mp3<\/a><\/audio>
\nLearned from the great French fiddler, Joe Politte, of Old Mines, Missouri. The Louisiana of the title refers to a town in the Show Me State.<\/p>\n

Chicago Fiddlin\u2019<\/font><\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/chicago-fiddlin.mp3<\/a><\/audio>
\nA tune made up by Geoff and named after his music buddies from the Windy City, especially Chirps Smith, who was featured at a Fiddle Club meeting April 2008.<\/p>\n

Geoff Seitz<\/a><\/p>\n

It would be a good thing if Geoff could come to Chicago someday and be a featured guest artist at a meeting of the Fiddle Club of the World. I’ll work on it.<\/p>\n

Paul Tyler, convener <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Besides being a good fiddler, Geoffrey Seitz is an excellent builder of fine violins. His shop in south St. Louis was recently featured in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch spread by photographer Erik Lunsford. Here, with permission from Mr. Lunsford, is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}